"Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit."

-- Bill Vaughan

#Remembrance Quotes #Deceit Quotes #World Quotes

“There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”

Source : "The Teacher of Literature". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1894.
“It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story.”

Source : Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (1996). “Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth”, Random House (NY)
“(God) gives the weak a weapon for self-defense that the strong, despite his military and nuclear arsenals, can do nothing against. There are clerics who condemn this and even say that these are suicide operations that are not allowed in Islam.”

Source : "Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi in Favor of Suicide Operations". MEMRI TV, April 2004.
“The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.”
“It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain..”
“Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.”
“David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).”

Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.224, Yale University Press
“Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.”

Source : Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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