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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether… — Eugene Ionesco
I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or… — Dave Navarro
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given… — C.S. Lewis
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in… — Walter Scott
History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write… — Louis Moreau Gottschalk
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. — Marguerite Duras
I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think… — Bob Geldof
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and… — Ron Perlman
If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old… — Unknown Author
At about the age of seven â€¦ I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous. — Betty Friedan
When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of… — Shirley Chisholm
How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. — Edward Abbey
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the… — Edward Abbey
Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end. — Edward Abbey
Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that… — Patrick Henry
Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived. — Thomas Paine
For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit… — John Hume
Marilyn always dreamt of being an actress. She didn't, by the way, dream of being just a star. She dreamt of being an actress. And… — Lee Strasberg

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