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Letter "R" » rot
«I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.»
Author: Jack London
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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«When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.»
«Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.»
«The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.»
«The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
collected,
dry rot,
here and there,
liable,
luxuriant,
man of science,
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timber,
yards
«Those who are not in love with the Lord are foolish and false - they are faithless cynics. They suffer the most extreme agonies of birth and death; they die over and over again, and they rot away in manure.»
«May his pernicious soulRot half a grain a day!»
«You mellow too much you ripen and rot»
Author: Woody Allen
(
Actor,
Author,
Film Director,
Screenwriter)
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Keywords:
mellow,
mellows,
ripen,
ripened,
ripens,
rot,
rots,
rotted,
rotting
«I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.»