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- Nov 07, 2020
My Life Quotes
First-person, unfiltered reflection.
This page is built from first-person quotes about "my life" — a long personal search for meaning, and the deliberate work of clearing out stress and unwanted obligations. For identity-focused sayings, see I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on Jul 30, 2026
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.
- High Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is so full of sacrifices.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
On May 6, 2013, I started hormone replacement therapy and began transitioning. I was very depressed, which is not uncommon for people with gender dysphoria. Two hours after my first estrogen injection, my depression went away for the first time in my life.
- Greatest Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to erase 53 years of being a macho aggressive guy to trying to be a woman, and this is greatest challenge of my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020