Lewis Carroll Quotes
He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said, 'The bitterness of Life!'
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
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I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
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There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.
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Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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I was in a university prep school in Canada, and the way that particular place worked was, you chose at a very young age what you were going to do with the rest of your life. Mine was law.
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I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.
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Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
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He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said, 'The bitterness of Life!'
