Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

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About Redd Foxx

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John Elroy Sanford (December 9, 1922 – October 11, 1991), better known by his stage name Redd Foxx, was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Foxx gained success with his raunchy nightclub act before and during the civil rights movement. Known as the "King of the Party Records", he performed...

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The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

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Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

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In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.

—Randy K. Milholland

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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

—James Thurber

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Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

—Walker Evans

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