All Quotes By Tag: Life
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“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
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“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.”
“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”
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“Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.”
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“Because I’m selfish. I’m a coward. I’m the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn’t follow to suffer and die.”
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“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
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“Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.”
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“Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.”
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“I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow.”
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“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn’t just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it’s an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.”[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
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“The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”
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“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live”
“You said you didn’t want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn’t bear it. Well that just isn’t good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it’s not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason..”
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“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.”
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