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life stories life-is
The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted... Carol Shields
life beautiful struggle
Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes
life strong truthful
What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life. Carlos Castaneda
life people important
I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.
life years bridges
Burn your bridges every 2 years.
life order dies
One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
life responsibility desert
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
life player games
Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world. C. S. Lewis
life faith creativity
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille
german-language language organs
The German language is the organ among the languages. Jean Paul
german-language years awful
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. Mark Twain
german-language language charmed
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
german-language awful toothache
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
german-language years down-and
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
german-language giving awful
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
german-language language speak
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. Martin Heidegger
german-language bumblebees literature
I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly. John le Carre
german-language littles today
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. Karl Kraus
insulting insult easy
It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money. Al Alvarez
insulting want interviews
Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot. Artie Lange
insulting perhaps personally sold taxpayers
Perhaps the taxpayers should also take it as personally insulting when they are being sold out. Joe Sinagra
insulting
If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally. Dasha Zhukova
insulting labels people quite regional work writers
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.
insulting care may
If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. Amy Poehler
insulting sit
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence. Asghar Farhadi
insulting may used
When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised Andre Maurois
insulting literature reputation
It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation. Anthony Holden