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...there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.
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A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment.
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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (2013) 1117 -
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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A fool... is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
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A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
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