#eat

Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider. ↗

— Susan Gregg Gilmore

#death

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#ask #continue #distance #explore #far

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ↗

— Leonardo DaVinci

#day #death #happy #life #sleep

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened

When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword) ↗

— John Irving

#imagination #parenthood #death

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#feelings #great #had #i #lot

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#means #must #racism #treat #understand

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#created #granted #must #popular #taken

I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#connection #difficult #direct #direct connection #fans

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.' ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#created #fact #generation #hey #i