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Life Quotes
"The reason why I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly.I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just to think of it.I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it."
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"Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life."
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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
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"I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth."
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"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."
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"Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again."
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"I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance."
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"You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is."
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"My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting."
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"When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher."
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"Pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing grew there, and that which passed through it, more heedless than children, did not even, like them, leave a name carved upon the wall."
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"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken."
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"Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. "How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?"
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"If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively."
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"When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own."
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"The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others."
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"It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night."
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"Kvothe looked at Bast for a long moment. "Oh Bast, he said softly to his student. His smile was gentle and sad. "I know what sort of story I'm telling. This is no comedy."This is the end of the story, Bast. We all know that. Kvothe's voice was matter-of-fact, as casual as if he were describing yesterday's weather. "I have led an interesting life, and this reminiscence has a certain sweetness to it. But . . .Kvothe drew a deep breath and let it out gently. ". . . but this is not a dashing romance. This is no fable where folk come back from the dead. It's not a rousing epic meant to stir the blood. No.We all know what kind of story this is."
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"When you are a child at home alone, you're afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, you're afraid no one will come."
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"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."
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"I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker."
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"Is there any place on earth that smells better than a Laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mowed--comfort food for your nose."
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"I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life."
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"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."
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"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."
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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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"The day is ending, it's not coming back."
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"The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We're lucky to be living now."
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