"There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading."

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Source : Agnes Smedley (1975). “Battle Hymn of China”

Agnes Smedley

#Death Quotes #Dying Quotes

“More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up!”
“Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.”

Source : Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”
“And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.”
“It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.”
“Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.”
“Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.”
“Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.”
“The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.”

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