- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live Quotes
Different ways of living, side by side.
This collection uses "live" as its thread but covers unusually varied ground — from reflections on how long humanity might last, to observations about wealth and poverty coexisting closely in Mexico. For quotes on love and connection, see Love quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quickly realized I live the least interesting literary life imaginable. My parents are happily married. There haven't been any major traumas. I'm not sure that the story of my life would be much fun to read.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed with dementia. It was the first time I had heard the word 'Alzheimer's disease.'
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
- Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American Catholic Church made statements on racism as far back as the 1940s and '50s. 'Colored' Catholic girls could not live in the dorms at Catholic University - the bishops' university - up into the 1940s.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
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- Nov 07, 2020