Lives Quotes (page 401)

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• kiss
• die
• waste

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money. Chuck Palahniuk

• die
• mattered
• dying

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters. R. A. Salvatore

• unique
• light
• shadow

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way. Vladimir Nabokov

• personality
• people
• skin

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins. E. L. Doctorow

• age
• old
• mindfulness

I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am. Amy Sedaris

• lesson
• life
• achievement

If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp. Bill Bryson

• telling
• tell
• story

But how could you live and have no story to tell? Fyodor Dostoevsky

• emphasis
• live
• lived

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut. James Patterson

• personality
• dead
• personal

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. Kurt Vonnegut

• forever
• people
• smile

If you think I'm going to let six people risk their lives - !''because it's the first time for all of us,' said Ron.'This is different, pretending to be me -''Well, none of us really fancy it, Harry,' said Fred earnestly. 'Imagine if something went wrong and we were stuck as specky, scrawny gits forever.'Harry did not smile. 'You can't do it if I don't cooperate, you need me to give you some hair.''Well, that's the plan scuppered,' said George. 'Obviously there's no chance at all of us... J. K. Rowling

• forever love
• best
• best love

The stories we love best live in us forever. J. K. Rowling

• liars
• great
• greatness

Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives. Dorothy Allison

• experience
• light
• memorial

harsh lights and narrow hallways, images which did not seem so much theatrical or foreign as imbued with the indelible quality of memory, of experience lived. Donna Tartt

• life
• philosophical
• philosophy

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy Albert Camus

• business
• busy
• die

He's too busy living to talk about dying. -Cara Jodi Picoult