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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
mean long different
Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV. Carre Otis
mean people judgment
Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.
mean males female
If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well? Carol P. Christ
mean boys play
Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in. Carol Leifer
mean phones years
To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them. Carol Moseley Braun
mean years leader
Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times Carlos Ghosn
mean heart assets
Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.
mean writing mexican
You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
mean warrior men
My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been forever left behind; that knowledge is indeed a frightening affair; that the means of the ordinary world are no longer a buffer for him; and that he must adopt a new way of life if he is going to survive. The first thing he ought to do, at that point, is to want to become a warrior...
fiction flash
I don't do flash fiction. Charles Stross
fiction offered side turned uses
When I turned 40, I wanted to do something different. Fiction offered a different challenge. It uses a different side of the brain. Anita Diament
fiction love science stuff
I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical. Tahmoh Penikett
fictional nonfiction piece shows stories work
My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture. Tom Bissell
fiction popularity programs
The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality. Laurie Levenson
fiction
I don't read fiction at all. Brent Spiner
fiction type inferiors
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them. David Morrell
fiction plausible
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction David Mitchell
fiction different process
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes. Chad Harbach