We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
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I have never been able to become an atheist and, even though I know it is completely irrational and cannot be backed up, I think when I die I’m going to glory.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 March 2026 source ↗
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View all 51 →An accounting is given of our lives. Did you give more than you’ve taken? Hurt more people than you’ve helped?
I hope I’ll find my mother and father in heaven. Only my father would probably say, “You can’t come and live here, boy!”
I think our kids take our stuff!
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View profile →I understand that you lose the register of hearing that enables you to hear crickets, and when I can’t hear crickets in the summer I’ll be really sad.
I’ve a deplorable tendency to become entrenched in my own prejudices: If I dislike an artist, an art form, or an idea (jazz, ballet, certain kinds of fiction) it is extremely difficult to get me to change my mind, and all evidence presented to the contrary will be discarded and very likely mocked. Of course, nobody suffers but me.
Like it’s worth being alive.
Every single morning the sun comes up and you get to try again.
I am so obdurate I do not change my mind.
Impatient, ambitious and happy.
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