- Hurt
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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
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.
- Good Deal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable. It's not your physical life, but it's everything else, so it felt like a lot was at stake.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra hard to sit still at the desk and put in the hours that you need to put in to write.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to Edinburgh that perhaps it was a mistake to have gone to a college which was bang in the centre of a vast city. It had a bad effect on the social life of the students because a lot of them were commuting from outer London.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was easygoing in terms of being adaptable in my social life. But maybe I suffered a personality change in the mid-'60s and became more dedicated to things involving work because it had become successful in some way.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as a 'right to buy.' Proper conservatives don't believe in invented, taxpayer-subsidised rights, a creation of liberals. They believe in freedom. And the break-up of council estates was one of the most unconservative things that ever happened, making life harder for young families and destroying settled communities.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020