Life Quotes
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Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.
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The purpose of life is life.
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A trip to the market in the morning to buy bread, an afternoon spent reading in a cafe—nothing was routine; a strange place helped you find the poetry in everyday life.
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Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.
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I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.
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Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
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Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them never occur.
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No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
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He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
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Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
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Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject.
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The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.
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Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?
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Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.
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I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.
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My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.
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When you first get started, you're the only one with a vision. When you become creative and use your imagination, pretty soon the things you imagined, you can get done. If you got a taste of it, if you got a taste of what I'm talking about, you'd rather do that than eat. You couldn't get enough of it. You'll hunger for it the rest of your life.
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That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.
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How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
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If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story.
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Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.
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Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.
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Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.
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This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman down beside you at the counter who says, Last night, the channel was full of starfish. And you wonder, is this a message, finally, or just another day?
