"What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?"

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#People Quotes #Heaven Quotes #What If Quotes

“The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out... and do it.”
“Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.”
“Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.”
“The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.”
“I'm a complete egomaniac. It makes me feel terrible to say [being interviewed] is hard. It's taxing in a way. Just 'cause it's a lot of mental energy just to keep focused. I actually think it's harder for journalists.”

Source : "Rob Corddry on Pain & Gain, Being from Boston, and Absurdity". Esquire.com Interview, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.
“I never thought I was good enough actually to write.”
“Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.”
“The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven.”

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