"Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?"

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Dying Quotes #Handle Quotes

“In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.”

Source : "Laugh Off: The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life And The Pros". Book by Bob Fenster, 2005.
“I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.”
“By aspiring to join the mainstream rather than figuring out the ways we need to change it, we risk loosing our gay and lesbian souls in order to gain the world.”
“The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.”
“I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.”

Source : "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.
“That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.”
“Why (he wondered rhetorically) do people who have a position that's being attacked constantly state that they have a right to say it, as if the right itself-rather than the statement-has been challenged?”
“I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].”

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