"If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life."

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Sun Ra

#Absence Quotes

“Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.”
“I have a completely worthless degree: a BS in Photojournalism from Boston University (BU). With this degree, I suppose I could have gotten a job teaching grade school kids how to photograph their relatives, but knowing about B&W photo processing and developing and how to shoot a picture story is good basic info that every photographer should have.”
“I think just as a person, if you say you follow Christ, you have to stand up for the injustices that are going on in the world.”
“I want to surf better tomorrow. I want to surf better in 10 years. When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.”

Source : "Kelly Slater: 'Surfing is my religion'" by Nick Glass and Natasha Maguder, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2013.
“I want to be one of the guys, but I also want to be 'the' guy, the guy that can go out there and they can rely on in crunch time. I'm going to be the guy that they know will show up every day, every game, every play and show up on a consistently great level.”
“America ainâ€™t three fifths bad.”
“Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.”

Source : Interview with Ross Simonini, logger.believermag.com. May 15, 2012.
“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see”

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