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  • George Eliot Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Publilius Syrus Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Emily Carr Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • Andrew Lang Life's more amusing than we thought.
    Andrew Lang
    Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic (1844 - 1912)
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  • Jonathan Raban Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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  • Alan Dundes Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Jean Paul Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
    Vivian Grey (1826) VIII, ch. 4
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Don Marquis Like all other zealous reformers we do what we do because we like doing it better than anything else.
    The almost perfect state
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • W. H. Auden Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • John Irving Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
    Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 248
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Joseph Heller Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Carla Bley Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Henry Giles Literature, as a field of glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; and as a means of support, it is the chance of chances.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Wayne Dyer Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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