#bury

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead. ↗

— Mike Schmidt

#civilized #civilized society #dead #every #holds

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#cancer #dad #day #diagnosed #ended

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#does #keep #mean #oneself #safe

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#dead #forgetfulness #grass #grows #like

The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those wives and husbands who had read sex manuals and radically wanted more of life even if it had to be, like pizza, brought in from around the corner--all of this was accomplished by Bloomsbury in the lightest, most spontaneous and good-natured manner. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#virginia-woof #writing #life

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near. ↗

— Philip José Farmer

#genre #kurt-vonnegut #parable #ray-bradbury #science-fiction

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#humor #nerdiness #ray-bradbury #science-fiction #humor

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#local-news #ray-bradbury #television #censorship

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#bull-rider #cf #grief #horses #karen

Because of what I loved at 7, I still get jobs in my 60's. Guess who got the job? Crazy Ray. Ray Bradbury ↗

— Sherri Rabinowitz

#lecture #ray-bradbury #the-daily-sundial #love