Life Quotes
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He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.
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Otis Redding, his voice, there was something spiritual and unworldly and at the same time, very deeply connected with the human connection and the way one feels about life in general, love, life, and everything, really.
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The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
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I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.
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The Navy is much more than a job; much more than service to country. It is a way of life. It gets in your blood.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.
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For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.
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Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you've invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative life into this narrative that you have some stake in how it ends.
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I've fallen out very badly with some of the subjects I've interviewed, because they see their lives a certain way; to step into a cinema and see your life depicted in another way can come as a terrible shock.
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.
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In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
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There is absolutely no reason why we have to deal with the mid-life crisis of our social policies by putting a bullet through their heads.
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I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself.
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The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
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I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.
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Life involves other people and it is a compromise.
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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
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Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
