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Life Quotes
"The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future."
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"As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."
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"The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go."
Life,
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"Almost don't matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand."
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"Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it."
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"Only where there is life can there be home."
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"If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort."
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"I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people."
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"He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully."
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"The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise."
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"For after the Battle comes quiet."
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"All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy."
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"Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes."
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"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
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"I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society."
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"I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement."
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"I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people."
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"On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need."
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"The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life."
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"You must stay away from the one who brings nothing but heartache and death. Do you hear me? He brings nothing but death. Always has."
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"I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime."
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"Life is like that...sometimes you have to peel off the bitterness in order to get to the part that is sweet."
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"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory."
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"Killing people is easier than it should be. Dad put on his beret. 'Staying alive is harder."
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"We're all dead...Some of us are just a little further along than others."
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"I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive."
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"With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole."
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"You can think of your life as being a little like knitting. When you first begin, there is no shape to it, but you keep knitting with some goal in mind-to make a sweater, a sock, or whatever. Every stitch is like a thought that you add to the overall shape of your life. Eventually, thoughts lead to action and the form will emerge, if you can only keep your intent in mind. If you have no clear vision, however, you will end up with a random pile of knotted yarn."
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"Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief."
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