"I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Mean Quotes #Fire Quotes #Years Quotes

“Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.”
“Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?”
“When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.”
“If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.”
“If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?”
“To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.”
“The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.”
“Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.”

Source : Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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