Living People Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't… — Kenneth Anger
The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and… — Thornton Wilder
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good,… — Michael Cunningham
The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing. — Bruno Munari
I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had satisfaction… — Lillian Hellman
Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot. — Cory Doctorow
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way… — Robert Frost
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery
People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to… — Amy Grant
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. — Ernest Hemingway
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. — Edvard Munch
Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as… — Banana Yoshimoto
It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist. — Rebecca West
Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects… — Jean-Luc Godard
...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every… — Muriel Barbery
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. — David Foster Wallace
If you donâ€™t live though and drop dead from it, can the Simi eat you? Akri says the Simi canâ€™t eat no living people, but… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living… — Virginia Woolf
In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range — Adam Johnson

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