Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
“Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor (1973) (Fourth Revised Edition), Chapter 20, "Margin of Safety": The Central Concept, p. 287
“It's harder to heal than it is to kill.”
“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
Variant: It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
Source: The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
“Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.”
Elyas Machera
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Dresden Files, Turn Coat (2009), Chapter 49
“I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized.”
Fallaci interview (1973)
Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York. ISBN 0-02517-430-4
“People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”
After Dark
Context: People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far the maintenance of life is concerned. They are all just fuel. Advertising filler in the news paper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills; when you feed them to fire, they are just paper. The fire isn't thinking 'oh This is Kant' or 'Oh This is Yomuri evening edition' or 'Nice tits', while it burns. To the fire, they are nothing but scraps of paper. It is the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories : there is no distinction — they are all just fuel
