Life Quotes
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Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.
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In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.
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Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
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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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The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.
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The experience of this sweet life.
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Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.
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They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty - even for a moment - it is enough.
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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
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One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.
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Oh, I am in love with life!
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Life had its seasons, and the season of letting go would always come, but there was something very beautiful in that, in the letting go. Leaves were always graceful as they floated away from the tree.
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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Fashion has always been as big a part of my life as football has.
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You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five years of your life to a movie, you need something to keep you going.
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We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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Life. As solid and as strong as a rock one minute, then hanging by a thread the next.
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One thing you have to realize is that cancer is not something you necessarily cure, but you want to just take care of yourself and extend your life as long as you can.
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Funny how life messed with you.
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If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.
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It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.
