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“If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.”
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“Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You look good doing it, and it's a nice thing to do for somebody you just had sex with.”
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“All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.”
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“The trumpet is forceful.”
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“For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the moonlight, even the hot metal of the tracks and the wind in the trees - that Death had just shrieked past like a stinking black eagle and made off with a remarkable man.”
Source : Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.
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“Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.”
Source : William Henry Davies, “Joy And Pleasure”
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“I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.”
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“It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.”
Source : "Are your friends making you fat?" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.