Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 2607.
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
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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 the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another.
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
A Thousand Splendid Suns -
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
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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 is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison - a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
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Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
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Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
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Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end.
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