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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
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
- Credit Card
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- Nov 07, 2020
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of that in my own life - passion, vigour, and what comes coupled with that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when my friend was at university there. I've always found it a friendly place and has a good night life.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life I've been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents are really political.
- Great Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite film is probably 'Star Wars'. I do love 'Starship Troopers', it is a great film but it's not a film I watch over and over again. Whereas 'Star Wars' I've watched over and over again all my life, and it's a film I can tolerate watching with my children.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less compromising. The way I live my life is to try to foreground the tensions and paradoxes of being a white person who's interested in racial justice and reconciliation, rather than disguise or obliterate them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my friends, picture of health, worked out his whole life, never had a weight problem. Calls me up one day and says, 'I have pancreatic cancer.' Gone. I've lost too many friends.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020