I Should Prefer To Die

No Nostalgia Runs Deeper Than That For Something One Has Never Known And Now Cannot Obtain.

Political Correctness And So Many Of The Political Fashions Of The Day...could Only Be Perpetrated In Adolescent Minds: Minds, That Is, That Are Trained To Search Out One Thing And One Thing Only...only An Adolescent Would Find It Worthwhile To Devote His Or Her Attention Chiefly To The Hunting Of Offenses, The Possibility Of Slights, Real And Imagined.

Culture Means, I Think, That You Have Widened Your Experience Enough Through Reading And Through Being A Little Bit Thoughtful About These Things That It Has Changed Your Outlook In Some Ways. And Not Necessarily Made You A Better Human Being But Made You See Things.

We Do Not Choose To Be Born.we Do Not--most Of Us, Choose To Die, Or The Times Or Conditions Of Our Death. But Within All This Realm Of Choicelessness, We Do Choose How We Shall Live--courageously Or In Cowardice, Honorably Or Dishonorably, With Purpose Or Adrift. We Decide What Is Important And What Is Trivial. What Makes Us Significant Is What We Do, Or Refuse To Do. We Decide And We Choose--and So We Give Definition To Our Lives.

The Reason 'closure' Is A Cliche Is That It Is Used Too Often, Too Imprecisely, And Doesn't In Any Case Reflect Reality. In Reality, Such Closure In Broken Friendships And Much Else In Life Is Rarely Achieved; Only Death Brings Closure And Then Not Always For Those Still Living.