Yukio Mishima Quotes
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.Yukio Mishima
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
Jack Vance -
I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
Fannie Flagg -
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
C. L. R. James -
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
Edmund Hillary -
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
Wayne Kramer
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings -
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Naveen Jain -
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
Barbra Streisand -
I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
Damian Lewis -
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
Victoria Pendleton -
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.
Tea Leoni
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov -
Only votes talk, everything else walks.
Dan Rather -
Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
Kate Millett -
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen -
I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
Sam Kean
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The magnitude of this event (9/11) turned the world into a scary place. And perhaps the scariest part of all was that these terrorists believed they were doing God's work. They were trained to view life on earth as of no value and that no act, no matter how barbaric, was off-limits if in pursuit of jihadd.
Nonie Darwish -
I'll never forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying ‘cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job, but his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom.
Eminem -
Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.
Andrew Whitworth -
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Walter Kaufmann -
I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
David Ogden Stiers -
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
Yukio Mishima