"Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand."

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Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

Rachel Klein

#Funeral Quotes #Body Quotes #Too Late Quotes

“I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.”
“I had been with a guy for seven years and I was done with that. I wanted to reinvent my whole life and change my hair - I'd had brown, straight extensions forever - and I just wanted to get rid of that, to shed skin, and really just be independent.”
“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.”

Source : Paul Auster (2009). “Oracle Night: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan
“It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.”
“. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.”
“Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.”

Source : "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.
“Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.”
“No place is ever the same tomorrow.”

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