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"I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper."
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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
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"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."
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"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
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"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."
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"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
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"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
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"I'm fine," [her dad] said gently. "Back on the horse, Cath.''What's the horse?' she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. 'Jogging? Working too much?''Living,' he said, a little too loud. 'Life's the horse."
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"You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes."
Love
"I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either."
Beginning
"When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents."
Family
"Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else."
Success
"In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world."
Hollywood
"Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will."
Will
"Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck."
Winning
"Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage."
Marriage
"I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich."
Time
"Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon."
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