"People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that youâ€™re alive?"

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Gay Talese

#People Quotes #Funeral Quotes #Dresses Quotes

“No sign, so far, of anything sinisterâ€”but I live in hope.”
“No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.”
“We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.”
“Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.”

Source : Attributed in "The Evil 100" by Martin Gilman Wolcott, (p. 78), 2004.
“With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.”
“My wife sent me a Valentine card that said, "Take my heart, take my lips, take my soul." That's just like her. She kept the good parts for herself.”
“If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it's not so bad.”
“What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating”

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