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- Nov 07, 2020
Living Quotes
On making a life, and making a living.
This set of living quotes includes a sharply critical political opinion, presented here strictly as the quote's own stated view about the administration it describes, alongside a separate observation about how thin the line has become between personal and professional life. Related reflections continue in our Life quotes.
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- Comma
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
- Fully
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fear not living fully.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.
- Los Angeles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love living in Los Angeles.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.
- Nov 07, 2020
When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.
- Diminishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020