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Sonnets: From Dante to the Present (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

by John Hollander

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“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life
has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just
completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark
is a smile”
― Julie Burchill

tags: death, life, living-life-to-the-fullest

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“Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.”
― Julie Burchill

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“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
― Thomas Szasz

tags: forgiveness, inspirational, naivety, wisdom

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“Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be pickled in anticipation of some future famine. (Hang on a minute and I'll get my sequins out and give you a quick rendition of 'My Way')”
― Julie Burchill, The Guardian Columns 1998-2000

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