Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
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I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.
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I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
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People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives.
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It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.
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I'm the captain of the Variety Club over in England, and so I'm playing golf for them once a week but doing odd bits.
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Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
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Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
