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Life Quotes by E L Doctorow
- A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is…
- Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.
- And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no…
- A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.
- I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.
- In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact…
- Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle