You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

By : Donald McKay

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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

By : Tennessee Williams

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What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

By : Aeschylus

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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

By : Igor Stravinsky

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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

By : Henry Ward Beecher

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Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality

By : Sylvester Stallone

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Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

By : Esther Forbes

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Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

By : DeForest Soaries

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I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

By : Elizabeth Hardwick

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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

By : Camille Paglia

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Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

By : Mike Fitzpatrick

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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

By : Thomas Browne

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