"A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man."

-- E. M. Forster

#Death Quotes #Men Quotes #Funeral Quotes

“What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.”
“I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.”

Source : "Lisa Ling Helps Women Share Compassion Through Secrets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 24, 2010.
“Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.”
“Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.”
“One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart.”
“Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.”

Source : Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.
“I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.”
“Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles that [Ronald] Reagan had. He did some very good things. We owe to Richard Nixon the volunteer army - he got rid of the draft. And that was a major increase in freedom.”

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