Living Quotes
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The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.
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I can't stop," the shark rasped. "If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living.
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Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.
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Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
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Most of living is waiting to live. And you spend a great deal of time worrying about things that don’t matter and about people that don’t matter and all this is clear to you when you know the very day you’re going to die.
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I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.
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Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
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Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.
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No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.
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To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.
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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
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It's different everywhere you go. I'm lucky I'm drawn into people who love and support me. I'm sheltered from that life. I see how all over the world there's so much oppression and pain. I'm living in a bubble.
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I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around me. Of course, there are any number of variations in marital relationships between those extremes. But there is always a need for spouses to change their behaviors or habits to suit each other. I have always been set in my ways and did not fancy changing my behavior or lifestyle.
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The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believe Contrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.
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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
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How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
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Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
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Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.
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It's not that I don't appreciate my life sober, but it's like there are two different people battling inside of me. I want to be good, do good, be a worker among workers, a friend among friends. But there's also this part of me that is so dissatisfied with everything, If I'm not living on the verge of death, I feel like I'm not really living.
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I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.
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For too long, the Democratic majority in Washington has failed to see the value in the sound model of working hard and living within your means.
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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
