"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle."

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Source : Jessica Mitford (2011). “The American Way of Death Revisited”, p.14, Vintage

Jessica Mitford

#Hands Quotes #Funeral Quotes #Victory Quotes

“Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid.”

Source : Katie Macalister (2005). “Hard Day's Knight”, p.106, Penguin
“I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.”
“I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.”
“The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.”
“For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.”
“New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.”
“The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”

Source : Twitter post from May 4, 2015
“I had this idea when I was in the hospital, .. It seems like every year I always have different people come and ask for a Christmas song and it seemed strangely appropriate for me this year because Christmas is the time that I am supposed to be sort of back and up and running and whatnot. So I just wrote a song about returning from this very interesting journey and kind of getting back to normal and getting back to work and my regular life.”

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