Life Quotes
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When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.
Ellen Langer
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The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.
Elizabeth Prentiss -
Living is not breathing but doing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
Herodotus -
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner -
You don't bring in a gay character as a way of commenting on gay issues. You have one there because he's real, and that's his life, no less so than your life is yours.
Teju Cole -
I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.
Adam Lindsay Gordon -
People want to see someone who looks like they might have this enviable life, but in turn, they are a mess and their life is a mess.
Erin Foster -
My love, I'm here. I'll wait my whole life through until you're done, there in the cove at Kamouraska. Until you wash your blood-soaked hands and make your way back to me.
Anne Hebert -
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
Steven Spielberg -
Be gentle with everything in your life.
Bryan Kest -
Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life.
C. S. Lewis
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My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
Christian Bale -
I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.
Alejandro Zambra -
I've had some of the best times of my life at The KK. The best staff at the greatest college bar in the country!
Chris Chelios -
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
George Bernard Shaw -
Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I've been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating.
Kazuo Ishiguro -
We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.
Oprah Winfrey
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I would certainly say that my life, and perhaps human life in general, follows an intricate pattern of defining, declaring, struggling for, fighting for what we think of and treasure as the self. The inviolate self. This begins with our families: your parents are part of your cultural landscape, and they are also shaped by larger forces than them.
Margo Jefferson -
I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were, first, never to be a second in a duel; and, second, never to go security for another man's debts.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II -
To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
Ernest Hemingway -
Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.
Georgia Harkness