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Life Quotes (page 692)

Meg Cabot quote: "If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over"-..."
If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over"- Suze Simon in the Mediator Meg Cabot
If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough. Richard Ford
Aristotle quote: "Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he..."
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. Aristotle
Perhaps,' Taran said quietly, watching the moon-white riverbank slip past them, 'perhaps you have the truth of it. At first I felt as you did. Then I remember thinking of Eilonwy, only of her; and the bauble showed its light. Prince Rhun was ready to lay down his life; his thoughts were for our safety, not at all for his own. And because he offered the greatest sacrifice, the bauble glowed brightest for him. Can that be its secret? To think more for others than ourselves?' That would... Lloyd Alexander
Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country. Noah Webster
Charles Bukowski quote: "In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day..."
In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass. Charles Bukowski
What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. Sylvia Plath
Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief broken life came within mind's reach and made a whole again. He knew once more, at last, after this long, bitter, waisted time, who he was and where he was. But where he must go in the years to come, that he could not see; and he feared to see it. Ursula K. Le Guin
The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs. Annie Dillard
Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams? dreams, do you understand? come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams. C. S. Lewis
James Baldwin quote: "The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder..."
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art James Baldwin
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth. George Eliot
Erica Jong quote: "A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because..."
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. Erica Jong
There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control. Nikki Sixx
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room. Raymond Chandler

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