“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”
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Saul Bellow 103
Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005Related quotes

“Postmodernism poisons everything.”
" A book review claims that there is no conflict between science and religion, but for dumb reasons https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/a-book-review-claims-that-there-is-no-conflict-between-science-and-religion-but-for-an-unusual-reason/" August 9, 2015

“Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.”
Letter to Bolingbroke (March 21, 1729); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
Variant: Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Source: Wishful Drinking

“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”
Traveling Mercies
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
You will not die, it’s not poison”
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Tombstone Blues