- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother always gives the best advice. When I left Puerto Rico to pursue my dreams, she always supported me and said to me, 'I'm never going to cut your wings, so don't let anyone else do that to you.' That has been my philosophy through life. I want to share that valuable lesson with my little girl someday.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020