H. L. Mencken Quotes
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
H. L. Mencken
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
Malcolm Mclaren
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I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
Cara Delevingne
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When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'
Kat Graham
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
Wayne Dyer
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
Zoe Cassavetes
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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
Patrick Rafter
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I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.
Eddie Marsan
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I still see life entirely through its Darwinian prism. I keep trying to shake off the aftereffects of writing 'The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead', and I find I can't.
David Shields
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Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
Seneca the Younger
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In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
David Hare
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Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience.
Nancy Pearl
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
H. L. Mencken
