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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
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They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?
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Once you stop learning, you start dying
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A divided heart loses both worlds.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
