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Life Quotes
"Some things cannot be taught, they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey."
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"What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision."
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"The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52."
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"Life is a very scary reality; you just have to keep moving ahead, doing what you do."
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"When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things."
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"I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life."
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"I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy."
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"I always wondered if they'd change you."
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"The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause."
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"You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it."
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"The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come."
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"Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take."
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"If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second."
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"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."
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"Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief."
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"With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and which he had never noticed before, when he was a minister. Now of course, after he's been released, he doesn't notice the birds anymore, just as beforehand. In the same way you won't notice Moscow, when you actually live there."
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"There are no victims in life, we are all volunteers. Our decisions create our experiences."
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"It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times."
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"Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?"
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"It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun."
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"Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad."
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"And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk."
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"But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt."
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"In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance."
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"My life is like an O Henry story....the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs."
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