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One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.
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My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.
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Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.
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Stupid was a prison they never let you out of, no time off for good behavior, you were in for life.
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It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.
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I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.
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It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.
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I cried, all right. I sat there at my desk and I cried for her, for me, for both of us, for all of us. I can't remember hurting any more in my life than I did then. Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right … but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
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Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.
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Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.
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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
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The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take note: a wife like that never needs to fear bubbling away the last of her life through a cut throat.
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More and more it seemed to Ed that there was a vicious downside of American life, a greased skid of opportunism, cut corners, easy drugs, easy sex, a morality that grew cloudier each year.
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He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep
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Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.
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City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.
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This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.
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How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.
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They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.
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In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don't or won't or can't and plenty of them aren't in prison either.
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It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.
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The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
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Three-thirty in the morning... To Ray Garraty it seemed the longest minute of the longest night of his entire life. It was low tide, dead ebb, the time when the sea washes back, leaving slick mudflats covered with straggled weed, rusty beer cans, rotted prophylactics, broken bottles, smashed buoys, and green-mossed skeletons in tattered bathing trunks. It was dead ebb.
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Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
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That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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September 21, 1947
(age 76)
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