Christina Baker Kline Quotes

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

Christina Baker Kline

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• For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Death
  • Loved

• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Authority

• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Man
  • Words

• What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Death
  • Dark

• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Death

• I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • First
  • Kiss

• A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • People
  • Country
  • Year

• Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

  

  Lara Logan
  • People
  • Think
  • Death

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Death
  • Food

• The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Men
  • Death
  • Black

• God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Death
  • Desire

• Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a 'death in the family.'

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Time
  • Long
  • Love

• I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Death
  • Dad
  • Car

• But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Life
  • Death
  • Waiting

• He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reality

• On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Decision
  • Decisiveness
  • Just Keep Moving

• My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Family
  • Father
  • Immigration

• I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • People
  • Up

• For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • Death
  • Kiss