"No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills â€” every emotion that any human ever had â€” and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed."

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Source : Letter to his parents from Paris, December 5, 1919.

Richard Halliburton

#Pain Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.”

Source : "Elementist Going Up". The Scientific Monthly, p. 183, March 1953.
“Without a Sabbath, no worship; without worship, no religion; and without religion, no permanent freedom.”
“The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us to eat more and to eat better, as also to digest more rapidly....The new cookery is conductive to health, to good temper, and to long life....Who could enumerate all the dishes of the new cuisine? It is an absolutely new idiom. I have tasted viands prepared in so many ways and fashioned with such art that I could not imagine what they were.”
“I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.”
“I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company
“If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.”
“Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.”
“The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.”

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