"Why do dying people never shed tears?"

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Source : Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates

Max Frisch

#Death Quotes #People Quotes #Tears Quotes

“Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his. The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.180, Penguin
“If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.”
“If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.”
“Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.”
“If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.”
“You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.”
“If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.”
“What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.”

Source : "Legendary Musicals Director Stanley Donen On Audrey Hepburn and 'Dancing With The Stars' (Q&A)". Interview with Rebecca Leffler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.

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