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"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."
S. I. Hayakawa
"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."
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"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."
Imogen Cunningham
"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."
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"It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no telling what made these moments different from any other, though he knew them when they came. He had seen sights more gruesome and more beautiful by far, and been left with no more than a fleeting muddle of their memory. But these-- the still moments, as he called them to himself-- they came with no warning, to print a random image of the most common things inside his brain, indelible."
Diana Gabaldon
"It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no telling what made these moments different from any other, though he knew them when they came. He had seen sights more gruesome and more beautiful by far, and been left with no more than a fleeting muddle of their memory. But these-- the still moments, as he called them to himself-- they came with no warning, to print a random image of the most common things inside his brain, indelible."
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"I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did."
John Forsythe
"I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did."
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"From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life."
Leon Askin
"From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life."
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"While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?"
Julia Ward Howe
"While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?"
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"I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy."
Edward Abbey
"I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy."
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"Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life."
Jack Nicholson
"Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life."
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"Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late."
Sophie Kinsella
"Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late."
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"I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it."
Marc Jacobs
"I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it."
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"It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good."
Elisabeth Elliot
"It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good."
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"I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way."
Charles Van Doren
"I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way."
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"What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off."
Stephen Greenblatt
"What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off."
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"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center."
Al Lewis
"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center."
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"Women are extremely important shapers of my own life."
Tony Hillerman
"Women are extremely important shapers of my own life."
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"I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians."
Traian Basescu
"I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians."
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"I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that."
Melanie Chisholm
"I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that."
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"Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs."
Kin Hubbard
"Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs."
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"In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence."
Richard Le Gallienne
"In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence."
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"The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life."
Theodor Svedberg
"The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life."
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"It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague."
Angela Carter
"It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague."
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"When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do."
George Martin
"When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do."
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"It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner."
Umberto Eco
"It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner."
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"Communal well-being is central to human life."
Cat Stevens
"Communal well-being is central to human life."
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"Maybe when I'm 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood."
Tracey Ullman
"Maybe when I'm 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood."
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"My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life."
Carl Andre
"My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life."
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"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."
Marie Curie
"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."
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"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
Sarah Bernhardt
"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
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"The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world."
John Strachan
"The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world."
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"May i have pain,but I don't have regret,that for whom I left all that person my beloved betrayed me.more I have regret for that child who's mother don't love and don't care and worry about his life.and betrayed him by broke his swears."
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
"May i have pain,but I don't have regret,that for whom I left all that person my beloved betrayed me.more I have regret for that child who's mother don't love and don't care and worry about his life.and betrayed him by broke his swears."
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"When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart."
George W. Bush
"When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart."
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"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over."
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"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work."
Augusten Burroughs
"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work."
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"Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself."
Larry Williams
"Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself."
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"We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects."
Laurel Clark
"We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects."
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"Sex is the gateway to life."
Frank Harris
"Sex is the gateway to life."
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"I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective."
George Wald
"I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective."
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"Life, if well lived, is long enough."
Seneca
"Life, if well lived, is long enough."
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"Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment."
Pearl Bailey
"Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment."
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"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."
Ingrid Bergman
"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."
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"If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear."
Christopher Dawson
"If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear."
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"If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try."
W. H. Auden
"If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try."
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"My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life."
Peter O'Toole
"My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life."
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"Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest in a long-held dream, and used the realization of that dream to enter a void with no guarantees. I didn't want financial struggle to be the sole outgrowth of the risks I had taken. More than money, I had put my belief systems on the line."
Gina Greenlee
"Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest in a long-held dream, and used the realization of that dream to enter a void with no guarantees. I didn't want financial struggle to be the sole outgrowth of the risks I had taken. More than money, I had put my belief systems on the line."
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"I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in part pleasure, sensitizing and clarifying, and that it is even a truer bond among people than any kind of proximity."
Marilynne Robinson
"I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in part pleasure, sensitizing and clarifying, and that it is even a truer bond among people than any kind of proximity."
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"Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life."
Douglas Jerrold
"Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life."
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"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."
Gustave Courbet
"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."
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"Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize."
Ramman Kenoun
"Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize."
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"I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil."
Eugenio Montale
"I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil."
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"I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't."
Yancy Butler
"I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't."
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