"One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next."

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Source : "Growing Up Buckley" by Christopher Buckley, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 26, 2009.

Christopher Buckley

#Rivers Quotes #Parent Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“The sleeping fox catches no poultry.”
“Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.”
“Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.”
“Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.”
“The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.”

Source : Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press
“Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them.”
“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”
“Itâ€™s really hard to hate someone for being different when youâ€™re too busy laughing together.”

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