Louis Auchincloss Quotes
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.
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To me, I will be a stronger person if I'm moving forward, doing the work I want, and continue to drive: force the purpose that I want to create versus doing what other people think I should be doing, which is never a way to live.
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Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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When I came to New York as a writer, I was taken with the idea that you're only getting in on bridges and ferries and through tunnels. The idea behind 'Takedown' is that it would be very hard to get out.
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Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
