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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Alan Alda After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Rohinton Mistry After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.
    Een wankel evenwicht (2010) 758
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Woody Allen After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about.
    Love and Death (1975)
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • William Shakespeare After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • George Macdonald Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Edwin Markham Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Susanna Moodie Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
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  • Bill Watterson Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
    Weirdos from Another Planet
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • George Meredith Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bruce Schneier Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Gail Sheehy All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Anatole France All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Boris Pasternak All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Robert Southey All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Rebecca West All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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