Quote by Jane Smiley
Somehow, knowing that Alzheimers is coming mocks all ones aspirati

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimers is coming mocks all ones aspirations – to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for ones accomplishments and hard work – in a way that old familiar death does not. – Jane Smiley

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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud – 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong? – Jane Smiley

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Home
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Vets do what doctors used to – diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death. – Jane Smiley

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Death
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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market. – Jane Smiley

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To die for ones country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death. – Pierre Corneille

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Death

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. – Stanislav Grof

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Death

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. – W. H. Auden

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Death

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Death

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Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else — an animals incomplete compared to a person… and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. – Georges Bataille

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Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. – Stuart Chase

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The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous. – David Icke

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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. – Charles de Secondat

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