“Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.”
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) Argentine novelist
"En la vejez todo es triste y ridículo: hasta el miedo a la muerte."
Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
“FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying”
— Stephen King, book Doctor Sleep
Variant: FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
Source: Doctor Sleep
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Source: Beastly
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In the coming days, we will continue to do everything we can to ensure the safety of American citizens and the security of our sources of energy. And we will stand with the people of Japan as they contain this crisis, recover from this hardship, and rebuild their great nation.
“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”
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The New York Times, March 1, 1981. http://partners.nytimes.com/books/98/11/29/specials/bainbridge-tenth.html
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