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Life Quotes
"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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"When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life."
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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've never walked out of a meaningless movie thinking ALL movies are meaningless. I only thought the movie I walked out on was meaningless. I wonder, then, if when people say life is meaningless, what they really mean is THEIR lives are meaningless."
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"Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself."
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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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"I'm pretty well. So's the family, and so's the boys, except for a sort of rash as is a running through the school, and rather puts 'em off their feed. But it's a ill wind as blows no good to nobody; that's what I always say when them lads has a wisitation. A wisitation, sir, is the lot of mortality. Mortality itself, sir, is a wisitation. The world is chock full of wisitations; and if a boy repines at a wisitation and makes you uncomfortable with his noise, he must have his head punched. That's going according to the Scripter, that is."
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"Life is one grand sweet song so start the music."
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"I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise."
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"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."
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"On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character."
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"Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling 'betrayals' of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning."
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"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."
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"We grow old judging othersAnd ourselvesUntil life humbles usAnd makes scared children of usLonging to hold another's handTo hear their kind words And witness their kind deeds done on our behalf.But like children,We sabotage everythingFor nothing satisfies usUntil life crumbles usAnd we are no more."
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"The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one."
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"Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure."
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"At such times one sees everything and remembers it all. I know from personal experience. I wish I did not."
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"Life has many insignificant pursuits that add little or no value to your reality."
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"A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'..."
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"Life can't be divided into chapters...only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath.I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how."
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"When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life."
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"I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die."
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"It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were."
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"To live unhappily, is failing life."
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"There will never be a point in my life where it is acceptable to waste time."
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"The road to Hell is always shiny and alluring."
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"If I did not have my work, I would not have any life."
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"But you can't give them everything they want-they will always want more than they have."
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"The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life. Or end it. One wrong turn down the right street or one seemingly unimportant conversation, and everything was changed. It wasn't right that each lifetime was defined, ruined, ended, and made by such seemingly innocuous details. A major life-threatening event should come with a flashing warning sign that either said ABANDON ALL HOPE or SAFETY AHEAD. It was the cruelest joke of all that no one could see the most vicious curves until they were over the edge, falling into the abyss below."
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"To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down."
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"If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work."
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"I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life."
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"I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life."
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"That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do."
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"The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers."
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