"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order."

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Source : David Gerrold, Mike Resnick (2011). “Alternative Gerrolds: An Assortment of Ficitious Lives”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

David Gerrold

#Life Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Order Quotes

“I'm actually not in favour of decriminalizing cannabis -- I'm in favour of legalizing it. Tax and regulate. It's one of the only ways to keep it out of the hands of our kids because the current war on drugs, the current model isn't working,”
“I think small animals can escape from many kinds of natural disaster more easily. There are just more places for them to hide, and more ways for them to find safe habitats. So this means that rats are set up to rule the Earth, but most of us already knew that. Now you know why.”
“I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.”
“To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.”
“Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.”
“We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.”
“I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.”
“Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional triggers - Love, adrenaline, comedy. But fear is a highly potent sensation.”

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