"Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is."

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Source : Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

Mary Roach

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Disrespectful Quotes

“God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.”
“The birthday of a new world is at hand.”
“I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.”
“I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.”
“it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.”

Source : Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House
“Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.”
“We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.”
“Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.”

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