Quotes about going
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“… go in the direction your head is pointed in.”

Jung Chang (1952) writer from China

Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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“I will follow you — until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.”

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you — until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.

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“I was afraid I was going to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

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“If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down”

James St. James (1966) American writer

Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

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“If anyone was going to fall prey to a handsome vampire, it was going to be me.”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: Cryptic Cravings

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“I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Self-Reliance

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“Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: I Dare You: Embrace Life with Passion

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“When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.”

James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer

Source: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead

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“Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.”

Source: Summer Knight

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“You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.”

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer

Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3831088 Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 2, No. 2, Nikos Kazantzakis (1971 - 1972)

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“That's it, cupcake. You're going down.”

Source: The Lost Hero

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“A small fact:
You are going to die…. does this worry you?”

Variant: ***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***
You are going to die.
Source: The Book Thief

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Cassandra Clare photo

“Go in peace, James Carstairs.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

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“What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity

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“It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.”

Source: Dear John

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“Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

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“If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.”

Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician

Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C6K0umwZwo by Diane Sawyer (1994)

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“What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.”

Variant: Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 167 <!-- p. 148 -->

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