Life Quotes
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The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.
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In the 1880s, women were decades away from earning the right to vote. Few owned property - if they were even permitted to do so. In addition to childcare obligations, many toiled in work that was either underpaid or not paid at all. Essentially, the gears of progress for women were moving slowly in just about every arena of life.
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The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment.
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One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.
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The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator.
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I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'
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Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.
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The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this hole where my life became cold, and it became gray, and I lost sight of everything that was important to me.
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There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
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As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness - the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.
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I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.
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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
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I had attached my life to basketball so closely that it made me physically ill.
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I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.
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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
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Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.
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I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.
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Cotton is my life.
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You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
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Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'
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I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.
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As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.
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...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.
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The fight life, that was easy. This is a battle I have every day.
