"So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten."

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Mallory Ortberg

#Memories Quotes #People Quotes #Silence Quotes

“But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.”
“If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value”
“Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.”
“I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer.”

Source : Alfred Eisenstaedt, Arthur A. Goldsmith (1969). “The eye of Eisenstaedt”, Studio
“Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 177), 1895.
“Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.”
“It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.”

Source : "Transcript: George Packer on ‘The Empty Chamber’". Interview with Tom Casciato, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2010.

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