"Better be killed than frightened to death."

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Source : 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 32

Robert Smith Surtees

#Frightened Quotes

“Live today, for tomorrow we die.”

Source : Alan Furst (2008). “Night Soldiers: A Novel”, p.105, Random House
“I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.”
“I like violence because I like looking at it and I like understanding emotional and physical violence and how they work with one another... It's operating in all these levels of hopefully - Oedipus is one of my favorite stories, that's like falling down a well when you read that - so that would be the hope, that each thing causes the next.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.”
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
“We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.77, New World Library
“Fighting is life... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?”
“If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.”

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