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- The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
- What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy…
- The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have…
- Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
- We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.
- What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of…
- Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that…
- I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a…
- One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
- Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
- I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains…
- Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer…
- I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
- To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
- Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
- I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have…
- I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married…
- Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too…
- Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in…
- You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t…
- do it from the heart or not at all.
- What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for…
- Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for…
- When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but…
- What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the…
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- 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
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- 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