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1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the best editor. 3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake. 4. Pick one — fame or delight. 5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket. 6. Cunning and excess are your friends. 7. TV and liquor are your enemies. 8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m. 9. You’re done when the crows sing. ↗

— Ron Dakron

#dakron #on-writing #ron-dakron #rules #writers

A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#death

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#extinct #forest #learn #man #oceans

What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information. ↗

— John Warnock

#act #applied #direct #factor #get

Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#voldemort #death

Someday all the wilds will be razed, and we will be left with a concrete landscape, a land of pretty houses and trim gardens and planned parks and forests, and a world that works as smoothly as a clock, neatly wound: a world of metal and gears, and people going tick-tick-tick to their deaths. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#future #death

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#happiness #pip #death

And you know," Jeanne said, looking down at Sylvia with her hands on her hips, "that's how I want to go. Taking my own way out... and totally pissing everybody off at the end. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#death

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal). ↗

— John Connolly

#death

Roller coaster through the atmosphere I'm drowning in this starry serenade Where ecstasy becomes cavalier My imagination's taking me away. Reverie whispered in my ear I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid Roller coaster through the atmosphere My imagination's taking me away. ↗

— Owl City

#owl-city #death