"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
-Woody Allen
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"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?“
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"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
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"Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all."
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"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose."
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"When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits."
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"I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet."
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"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy."
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"So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb."
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"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
-John Thorn
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