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IMRE KERTESZ I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.
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IMRE KERTESZ The officer is a composite of various Americans who said the same thing. For everyone, it was an imp...
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IMRE KERTESZ The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.
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Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
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Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER
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It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER
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Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
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The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:A painted book.
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MARKUS ZUSAK Love is like a novel, But with you its a picture book.
DEVYN WESLEY BARA-NAVARRETTE
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.
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ROALD DAHL
Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)... JAMES JOYCE
Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT
This life is a process of learning. LAURYN HILL
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF
Everybody in life is a chameleon. MELANIE CHISHOLM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER
Life is a grand party. EZRA MILLER
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In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came ... ALBERT CAMUS
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J.R. RIM
Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and. GLORIA STEINEM
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. MARILYN HACKER The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it...
JONATHAN LETHEM
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. JAMES DYSON
My life is a struggle. VOLTAIRE
Life is a lot like skateboarding. LIL WAYNE
All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love. MORIHEI UESHIBA
For me, life is a bowl of cherries. SISSY SPACEK
Life is a right, not collateral or casual. SUHEIR HAMMAD
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. Go... PETER KREEFT
Mother Superior jump the gun...-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
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VICTORIA HEIDUSCHKE
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Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ... KELLY MCGILLIS
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas. LOUISE BROWN I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and ...
JACQUELINE WOODSON In my book, either a business grows, or it goes down. I want to be number one.
MAGGIE HARDY MAGERKO Your book is a springboard and integral strategic part of your overall game plan. Being an author po...
KYTKA HILMAR-JEZEK
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?''Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER
The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a ... ETHAN CANIN
[In his 1983 autobiography,] Giant Steps, ... Either because I was an athlete or because I was black... KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobi...
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or ... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many sto... ANNIE DILLARD
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All of life is a foreign country. JACK KEROUAC
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. MADAME DE STAEL
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. MARCUS AURELIUS Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Life is a predicament which precedes death. HENRY JAMES
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. JACK KEROUAC
Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome. DANNY MEYER
Life is a soccer field, don't you think? SHAKIRA
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. CHARLIE CHAPLIN Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
CAROLYN SEE When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
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APURVA GAGLANI Just do it. Now.
M. YEATS An autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA G. HARRIS Sadly,life is a biography not an autobiography.
KEGGAH CORNER
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ethe... D.H. LAWRENCE
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel... D. H. LAWRENCE
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. JEFFREY ARCHER
