"About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Death Quotes #Lying Quotes #Home Quotes

“The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.”
“A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.”
“The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.”
“I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.”

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“I couldn't walk up to a woman at a bar and say hello.”
“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.”

Source : 1950 The Liberal Imagination.
“Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.”
“Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (1995). “Gospel Medicine”, p.153, Cowley Publications

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