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“Life is a handful of short stories pretending to be a novel.”
“Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.”
“Life is better than death I believe if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.”
“Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.”
“Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation and without being allowed the preliminary trials the failures and botches that are essential for the training of a mere beg...”
“Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.”
“Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.”
“The character of human life like the character of the human condition like the character of all life is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil the true and false the creative and des...”
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.”
“The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad like the season and infinite in wealth and depth of tone - but never hustled.”
“The loveliest of trees the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough and stands about the woodland ride wearing white for Eastertide.”
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.”
“The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.”
“This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit survive.”
“This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.”
“We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.”
“When the world has once begun to use us ill and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.”
“Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.”
“Life is ours to be spent not to be saved.”
