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Life Quotes


"I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?"
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"The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself."



"When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life."


"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."


"Everything happened to find the balance of Life."


"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."


"There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing."


"If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier."



"It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing."


"I live in the paradise of my imagination."


"A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life."


"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long."


"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."


"Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction."


"It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K."


"To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees."


"Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible."


"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."


"That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life."


"Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?"



"I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life."


"Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body."


"You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of."


"Think of the life of the working woman as the decathlon. If you even finish it's a miracle."


"At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't."


"I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'"


"It was as if life was one great big impersonal piece of machinery."
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