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He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered e-mails, and in the hovel he called home there would still be shirts missing cuff buttons, a malfunctioning light in the hall, and unpaid bills, uncleared attics, dead flies, friends waiting for a reply and lovers he had not owned up to.


Ian Mcewan


#procrastination #resignation #death

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.


Richard M. Nixon


#analyzed #best #course #found #i

Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down


Stephen King


#peter-mcvries #resignation #tiredness #death

And that's the last chapter of the history of the world: in which we create, through the workings of the imagination, a world that is uncreated: that is the work of no author. A world that imagination cannot thereafter alter, not in its deepest workings and its laws, but only envision in new ways; where our elder brothers and sisters, the things, suffer our childish logomantic games with them and wait for us to grow up, and know better; where we do grow up, and do know better.


John Crowley


#revelation #imagination

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.


David R. Brower


#club #deal #finally #forced #great

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.


Joseph Conrad


#conscious #detached #feelings #impossible #informed

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.


Salmon P. Chase


#forethought #grave #man #minded #never

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.


W. Somerset Maugham


#conduct #frame #humorous #i #i can

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.


Pierre Salinger


#american life #death #great #jfk #life

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.


Eduard Shevardnadze


#bloodshed #i #i think #only #resignation






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