Erwin Chargaff Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
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Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
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Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.
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Life is good when you have a good sandwich.
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Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.
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telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
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Life is about making right things and going on.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.
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Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.
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A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.
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Life is amazing. Even when it sucks, it is amazing, and we should be grateful for every moment.
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The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
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To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.
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The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
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That, which others compress - will widen up and open. That, which others weaken - will strengthen. That, which others destroy - will blossom. Whoever wished to take something from the other, will inevitably loose his own.
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I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.
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The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.
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Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
