Quotes 921 till 940 of 2078.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done.
Wings of Fire -
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
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Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
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Literature exists inside the language. It’s made of words. It’s not made of ideas and it’s not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It’s made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. So, literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016 -
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
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Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.
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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Nobody Knows My Name (1961) -
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
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