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For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr.
The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.
If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.
Marriage, at first, may seem like it will last forever. But surprisingly, a lot of the times, it shatters easily. Like porcelain.
Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.
I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.
I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.
Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.
I'm the last person to tell my friends to go see something I'm in. I could care less if friends of mine never saw anything I'm in.
Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
Every big adventure should feel like your last. Every attempt should feel like a final charge up the hill. Tomorrow doesn't exist.
Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.
Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.
What's going on?" I sat down on the bed and finished the last of the scone. "Bad things," she said mischievously. "You'll approve.
Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head.
...I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
His last thought was that it hadn't been stupidity that had allowed his son to enchant him so easily with words. It had been love.
If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last.
Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.
The last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed.
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.
For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
I spent a lot of the last five years on a set, and every once in a while you take stock of your life and look at what you're doing.
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.
The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.
Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.
Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either.
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.
He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.
Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.
I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.
Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
The key to being a great band that lasts is always going to be making sure you write really good songs and put on really good shows.
Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard.
I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.