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I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends — and I from Legends created only the ordinary!
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The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
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Look,... to go through life and call it yours — your life — you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'
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Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
Peter Shaffer
Born:
May 15, 1926
Died:
June 6, 2016
(aged 90)
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