Best He Lived Sayings
101 He Lived quotes by 99 unique authors
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[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But…
— William C. Bryant
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My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of…
— Umberto Eco
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from…
— Ernest Hemingway
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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
— Clarence Budington Kelland
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I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond…
— Harvey Pekar
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And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long…
— Nicole Krauss
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I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and…
— John Green
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Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing…
— Paul Auster
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I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out…
— Jenny Downham
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Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever…
— Roald Dahl
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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.
— James M. Barrie
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I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that…
— David Benioff
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He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't…
— John Steinbeck
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She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn't only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything from her intelligence…
— Terry Goodkind
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His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.
— Laura Hillenbrand
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what…
— Walter Scott
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All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as…
— Kenneth Grahame
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Balthazar pledged to die defending his royal house of Lumuatere. Finnikin swore to be their protector and guide for as long as he lived. Lucian…
— Melina Marchetta
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He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him…
— James Joyce
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He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always…
— Stendhal
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it…
— Jack London
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So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.
— George R. R. Martin
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