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Life Quotes (page 290)

Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words? Janet Frame
What we see, we seeand seeing is changingthe light that shrivels a mountainand leaves a man alive. Heartbeat of the pulsarheart sweating through my body. The radio impulsepouring in from Taurus I am bombarded yet I stand. I have been standing all my life in thedirect path of a battery of signalsthe most accurately transmitted mostuntranslatable language of the universe. I am a galactic cloud so deep so invo-luted that a light wave could take 15years to travel through me And... Adrienne Rich
Michael Chabon quote: "Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done..."
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. Michael Chabon
I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts. P. D. James
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it. C. S. Lewis
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate..."
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it. Barbara Kingsolver
Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new! Kenneth Grahame
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite..."
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us. J. G. Ballard
Nikos Kazantzakis quote: "We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call..."
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. Nikos Kazantzakis
William Shakespeare quote: "The object of Art is to give life a shape."
The object of Art is to give life a shape. William Shakespeare
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life. Mahatma Gandhi
I felt in my heart that the further one ventures the better one understands how everything in our life is common, short, and empty; that it is in seeking the unknown in our sensations that we discover how mediocre are our attempts and how soon defeated! Joseph Conrad
If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have .. if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway, compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it? Ken Kesey
Kenneth Koch quote: "Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them, Idea and..."
Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them, Idea and friendship. Kenneth Koch

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