Life Quotes
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.
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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
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I'm so blessed with my baby. And I want the most normal life possible for him. And I'll manage, I will create that.
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In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
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I travel a lot, so I know that it's important to have people in your life to keep you ground.
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One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.
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I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.
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It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.
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Life is mortal. There are all these rewards and consequences. Sometimes you embrace them, and sometimes they knock you over.
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I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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I have met friends that I will stay connected to for the rest of my life.
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Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.
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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
