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Death...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

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• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

  

  Earl Warren
  • World
  • Today
  • Completion

• But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

  

  Ted Rall
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Book
  • Rock
  • Star

• You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.

  

  Rand Paul
  • You
  • Injustice
  • Consequences

• I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Way
  • Single
  • Regret

• A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom - he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

  

  E. B. White
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Weird
  • Holiday
  • Friday

• 'But girls often marry when they are too young,' exclaimed Mary-Marie quickly; 'so, if you don't object to my age - '

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Age

• Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.

  

  Sam Keen
  • World
  • Society
  • Stop

• Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • True
  • Dirty

• Παῖδες γὰρ ἀνδρὶ κληδόνες σωτήριοιθανόντι.

  

  Aeschylus

• What happened to Riggs?

  

  Kevin Smith

• When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come from a horror movie. So many people talk about seeing their families get murdered before their eyes. Then I go to Central Park, and people are talking about their third divorce and paying tuition.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Different
  • Movie

• I was on as many as seven medications at one time, doctors didn't know what to do with me.

  

  Darrell Hammond
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Doctors

• When I first agreed to do 'Shark Tank,' they asked me to wear a suit, and I was just like, 'No. I can't. It'll end my career.'

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Career

• The biggest difference between L.A. and my hometown in Georgia is when Georgia goes to sleep, L.A. wakes up. So, like, in LaGrange, when people are going to sleep at 10, 11 to get up in the morning, we're just getting dressed to go out.

  

  Elijah Kelley
  • People
  • Up
  • Morning

• We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • World
  • Death
  • Fighting

• Death...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

  

  George Washington
  • Death
  • Return
  • Traveler