Live Quotes
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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The only certainty is the certainty of what they leave behind: thunder in August, heart-crushing love affairs with the light, no money. How warm air rises from the valleys at noon and comes down cool from the high country as the sun goes down. How the ground beneath your feet shapes your muscles. How where you live—the locale—makes you who you are.
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You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.
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Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.
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Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?
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Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.
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All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
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Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.
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It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
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“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”
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“Too often have we believed the old lie that says we’re bad, we’re perverted, we’re abominations. But those who spread the lie don’t know. They don’t know how we love, how we hurt, how we live.”
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely 'cowardice' had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live.
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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.
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One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it's the theatrics involved. It's like Kabuki theater, really old-fashioned theatrics. Like, standing on top of a piece of plywood lying on some cinderblocks and clapping his hands, banging on a bucket.
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I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.
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The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves.
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When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
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I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.
