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Life Quotes
"I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives."
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"Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment."
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"Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill."
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"In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol."
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"I make a new discovery that totally blows, dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks."
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"Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning."
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"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing."
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"True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me."
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"There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise."
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"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
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"Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself."
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"It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe."
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"We are not sure whether the world ever physically comes to extinction. It may or it may not. But, the moment a person dies everything comes to extinction for him. His world is devastated.I believe that one should fully live the life before it comes to extinction."
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"The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you."
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"The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications."
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"Every day you say something or do something that challenges me, changes me."
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"People who kill time are themselves not alive."
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"You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it."
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"Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life."
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"I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs."
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"Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more."
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"For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own."
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"The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life."
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"There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable."
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"Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms."
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"Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me."
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"Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored."
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"Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life."
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"Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up."
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"No. Absolutely not. I forbid it. You'll have nightmares.' 'She was my friend! You must allow me. Why are you so horrid?' As soon as the angry words were out of my mouth, I knew I had gone too far. 'Matilda!' Mother rose from her chair. 'You are forbidden to pseak to me in that tone! Apologize at once."
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