“Let' em learn or let' em die”

— Charles Bukowski, book Post Office

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American writer 1920–1994

Laura Penny (1975) Canadian journalist

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Three, Is our Schools Sucking?, p. 90

“I've got no time to look back, I've got no time to see
The pieces of my heart that have been ripped away from me.
And if the feeling starts to coming, I've learned to stop 'em fast
Because I don't know, if I let 'em go, they might not wanna pass.
And there's just so many people trying to get me on the phone
And there's bills to pay, and songs to play
And a house to make a home.
I guess I'm older now and I've got no time to cry.”

Iris DeMent (1961) American singer and songwriter

No Time to Cry
Song lyrics, My Life (1994)

“Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.”

John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland (1818–1906) British politician

England's Trust, part iii, line 227, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Context: No: by the names inscribed in History's page,
Names that are England's noblest heritage,
Names that shall live for yet unnumbered years
Shrined in our hearts with Cressy and Poictiers;
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.

““Damn you!" Dagenham raged, “Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.”
“Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.””

Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination

Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (pp. 254-255).

“let you down
let you go
let you die”

Travis Thrasher

Solitary

“Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”

Mary Zimmerman Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

“Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer