"If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?"

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Source : William H. Gass (2010). “A Temple of Texts”, p.346, Knopf Group E-Books

William H. Gass

#Temptation Quotes #Alive Quotes #Return Quotes

“She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girlsâ€™ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.”
“Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.”

Source : "Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. May 10, 2012.
“I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when Im abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.”
“I won't do anything that is connected with drugs. I've seen drugs ruin so many people's lives. I don't think there's anything cute about drugs. And I don't believe in celebrating them.”
“The getting is easy; the keeping is the important part.”
“The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.”
“I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.”
“When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.”

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