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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. Carlos Castaneda
life years bridges
Burn your bridges every 2 years. Carlos Castaneda
life order dies
One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for Carlos Castaneda
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. Carlos Castaneda
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
war believe president
We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize. Carol Moseley Braun
war struggle snakes
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage. Carol Moseley Braun
war men bombers
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now. Carol Vorderman
warrior experience emptiness
There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal. Carlos Castaneda
warrior men average
... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change. Carlos Castaneda
warrior world way
Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way Carlos Castaneda
warrior men somewhere-else
A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him. Carlos Castaneda
warrior consistency spirit
...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations. Carlos Castaneda
warrior ghouls worst
If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly. Carlos Castaneda
gay kind late
My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay. Carol Leifer
gay names two
We dropped two bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and the name of the plane that delivered the weapons was the Enola Gay. Do you know why? Because we wanted them to know that they were about to get boned in the ass. Carlos Mencia
gay skeletons expectations
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one. Charles Dickens
gay sea san-francisco
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there. Brian Eno
gay singing angst
The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off. Bret Easton Ellis
gay thinking sight
It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get. Brande Roderick
gay two people
We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity. David Brooks
gay fighting years
I'm for gay elopement, not for gay weddings. I've been with my boyfriend for twenty years. I don't feel like that would validate our relationship in any way. But I would really fight for someone else to have the right. Just elope, though, please. David Sedaris
gay giving care
The good thing about being gay, though, I always believed, is that you didn't make anyone go to a wedding. Nobody wants to go to a wedding. Nobody. It kind of bothers me now that you have to go to gay weddings, too. I don't care. It's still a wedding. And I would give anybody double gifts if they would elope. David Sedaris