Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right.”
“Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.”
“music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but
you are the music
While the music lasts.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1909-1962
“You better live every day like your last because one day you're going to be right.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk (2007) by Larry Chang and Roderick Terry, p. 365
“All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe”
Culture
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Context: I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel; but I mean to do justice. I think, there is a restlessness in our people, which argues want of character. All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe; — perhaps, because it is their mental home, as the invalid habits of this country might suggest. An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe." Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?
“All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.”
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
“You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?"
"All right," he whispers.”
Source: The Hunger Games
