Marge Piercy Quotes
On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.
Marge Piercy
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
Nadia Boulanger
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When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
Lana Del Rey
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
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The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.
Karrine Steffans
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I am using the word image in a wide meaning, which does not restrict it to the mind's eye as a visual organ. An image in my usage is what Charles Pierce called a sign...
Jacob Bronowski
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On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.
Marge Piercy
