"In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, I know one boy who won't be sweating. I intend to raise my coffin-lid briskly, throw a few things into an overnight bag, and, whistling something appropriate, prepare to meet my Maker."

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Source : Alan Coren (1965). “The dog it was that died”

Alan Coren

#Strong Quotes #Boys Quotes #Men Quotes

“Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.”
“We are tomorrow's past.”

Source : Mary Webb (2013). “Precious Bane”, p.10, Hachette UK
“Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.”
“To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success”
“Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?”
“When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through listening to Art who was courting me by reading me Little Nemo and Krazy Kat by George Herriman. It was really very effective.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.”
“There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.”

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