"I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear ..."

-- Stevie Smith

#Pain Quotes #Lying Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.”
“Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.”
“As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.”
“Producers say things that they would like to see in the movie but they don't see the full picture. In the end if you ignore everything the producers say, of course, you get fired; but then if you listen to a producer on everything then it's like 'Hey - why don't you direct your own movie?'”
“Life is like a box of chocolates, You never know what you're gonna get.”
“When you're depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up, and you can do it through play. It's one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation.”
“ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.”

Source : Evan Wright (2005). “Generation Kill”, p.23, Penguin
“The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you.”

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