"For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly."

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Source : DBC Pierre (2008). “Vernon God Little”, p.269, Faber & Faber

D.B.C. Pierre

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“It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.”

Source : Andrew M. Greeley (1993). “Love Affair: A Prayer Journal”, Crossroad
“It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.”
“Usually, being a volunteer organizer essentially means that I am part of a core base of individuals, that when we start a project - whether it be a big thing like the inauguration or whether it be something that's a longer-term, let's say, educational campaign about a foreign policy issue or a domestic issue - we sit together and we divvy up, and oftentimes it's relevant to different things we do.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.”
“One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.”
“They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.”
“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.”

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