I think some love you can stand to let go of because it's ultimately for the best, but other types you have to stick with until the day you die even when it's hard.

—Nick Burd in The Vast Fields of Ordinary

About Nick Burd

Nick Burd (born April 17, 1980) is an American novelist.

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Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.

—Nick Burd in The Vast Fields of Ordinary

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Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it.

—Nick Burd in The Vast Fields of Ordinary

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The pain-relieving ingredient—there's always got to be a lot of that. Nobody wants anything less than extra-strength. "Give me the maximum allowable human dosage. Figure out what will kill me, and then back it off a little bit.

—Jerry Seinfeld

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My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

—Margaret Smith

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Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

—Mitch Albom in Tuesdays With Morrie

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As an individual, with your death there will be an end of you. But your individuality is not your true and final being, indeed it is rather the mere expression of it,… only the phenomenon presented in the form of time, and accordingly has both a beginning and an end. Your being in itself, on the contrary, knows neither time, nor beginning, nor end, nor the limits of a given individuality.… So that, in the first sense, after death you become nothing; in the second, you are and remain everything.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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My security against the inevitable is: the longer I live, the more dead people I know.

—Helen M. Stump

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