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Life Quotes
"I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions."
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"The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments."
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"I love all of Albert Brooks' work from Defending Your Life back to his first film, Real Life, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work."
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"It was Christmas Day and Danny the Car Wiper hit the street junksick and broke after seventy-two hours in the precinct jail. It was a clear bright day, but there was warmth in the sun. Danny shivered with an inner cold. He turned up the collar of his worn, greasy black overcoat. This beat benny wouldn't pawn for a deuce, he thought."
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"Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it."
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"I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause."
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"What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free of these accumulating experiences which were mine only by force of inertia required a violent effort. Now and then I lunged and tore at the net, but only to become more enmeshed. My liberation seemed to involve pain and suffering to those near and dear to me. Every move I made for my own private good brought about reproach and condemnation. I was a traitor a thousand times over."
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"The more complicated this society becomes, the greater the need is to simplify your life."
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"Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make."
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"People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to fit. You never know, you may hold the unique perspective that when voiced or demonstrated will change generations."
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"But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?"
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"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood."
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"Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be."
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"Life must be lived to the fullness."
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"You should be working on your speech instead of staring, Rider said, never taking his eyes off his notebook.Paige's dark eyes flew to me and then narrowed.Heat exploded across my cheeks."And you should actually be working on, I don't know, your speech? Hector grinned as he gestured to his paper, which appeared to have actual words on it. "And please don't stare at him, Mallory. Because of Paige, his ego is already big enough. He doesn't need any help."
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"It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good.All who dream life, instead of living it,require some similar shock."
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"My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses."
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"It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in the gathering rain, no chance no intention whatever of hailing a cab, the whiskey and the Morphine have made me unruffled by the sickness of the poison in my heart."
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"To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic."
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"The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them."
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"It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count."
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"I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't."
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"Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life."
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"They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to."
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"With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me."
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"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
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"Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing."
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“It takes a certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise.”
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"Life and love are never what you think they are."
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"Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up."
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"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
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