"Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit."

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Source : Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

Edward Abbey

#Life Quotes #Regret Quotes #Grief Quotes

“A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."”

Source : Melvin Helitzer (1992). “Comedy Writing Secrets”, Writers Digest Books
“As I grew a little bit older and got interested in law, I read that Clarence Darrow didn't believe in the Bible either. So I read everything he had ever written, all of his trials, everything - to search out the philosophy of his disbelief.But I couldn't find it.”
“A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.”
“Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.”
“To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.”
“Iâ€™d want to have sex with myself. All the time.”
“I'm so bad at lyrics. I'm always trying to get better. Sometimes, the song can restrict your lyrics - if you're trying to make a poppy song, you don't want to sing something that sounds like it could be on an At the Drive-In song.”

Source : "Toro Y Moi". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.
“I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.”

Source : Jonathan Tropper (2010). “This Is Where I Leave You”, p.307, Hachette UK

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