E. M. Forster Quotes
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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The idea that you've been friends for your whole life and then suddenly the other person becomes your job - it would be so weird. It would be hard not to become massively resentful.
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.
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For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.
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We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins.
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What would your life be like if you found out you had 3 weeks left? And you know that you had not begun to live? And you had all these dreams and all these possibilities. And all these things you wanted to do and things you wanted to say and now time's up?
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
