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Quotes To Live By (page 141)

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. Or so it is with me. Thus my writing life consists of spells of languor alternating with fits and spasms of mad typing. At all times, though, I keep a journal, a record book, and most everything begins in the form of notes scribbled down on the pages of that journal. Edward Abbey
You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live. Ray Bradbury
Roland Barthes quote: "I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering."
I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering. Roland Barthes
E. E. Cummings quote: "(existing's tricky: but to live's a gift)"
(existing's tricky: but to live's a gift) E. E. Cummings
His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what? Steve Martin
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to..."
Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time. Chuck Palahniuk
Harper Lee quote: "Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried..."
Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him. Harper Lee
Edie didn't budge. She leaned her chin on her knees and felt sad. She was a big reader too, but she liked THE BOBBSEY TWINS or HONEY BUNCH AT THE SEASHORE. She loved that nice family life. She tried to live it in the three rooms on the fourth floor. Sometimes she called her father Dad, or even Father, which surprised him. Who? he asked. Grace Paley
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor. Thomas More
Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. Frederick Buechner
Robinson Jeffers quote: "We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't..."
We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed. Robinson Jeffers
There are some kind of men - men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. Harper Lee
Peter Shaffer quote: "Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same..."
Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the world? Peter Shaffer
Yukio Mishima quote: "Human life is limited but I would like to live forever."
Human life is limited but I would like to live forever. Yukio Mishima
Reba McEntire quote: "Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know..."
Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make. Reba McEntire

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