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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. — Lawrence Durrell
I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had… — Marian Wright Edelman
My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of… — Standing Bear
I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. — George Wald
Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived… — Soren Kierkegaard
We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best… — J. B. Priestley
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.… — Walter Benjamin
Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and… — Maureen Howard
Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law. — Maxine Hong Kingston
It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived… — Maxine Hong Kingston
Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone. — Judith Guest
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style… — Rudolf Arnheim
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived. — Richard Leakey
Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of… — Lilly Ledbetter
I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark,… — Malcolm McDowell
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I… — Margaret Mahy
I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one… — Mary MacLane
I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe. — Romany Malco
I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my… — Stephenie Meyer
My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told… — Dean Norris
My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing… — Meshell Ndegeocello
I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and… — Navid Negahban
I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it… — Navid Negahban
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at… — Paul Nurse
So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in… — Simon Newcomb

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