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Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.


Edna Ferber

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EDNA FERBER Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
MORIHEI UESHIBA Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
NICK TOSCHES Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMES Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER Life is a magical game so play it with love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ...
KELLY MCGILLIS My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.
DOUG HUTCHISON They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other...
PARUL WADHWA I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
SISSY SPACEK Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
SUHEIR HAMMAD Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, ...
WENDELL PIERCE A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
JACK KEROUAC Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
DANNY MEYER Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
SHAKIRA What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
CAROLYN SEE Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
THEODORE ROETHKE Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a jo...
CHILA WOYCHIK Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
NOLAN RYAN Love is energy of life.
ROBERT BROWNING The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself...
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really ...
JEAN VANIER The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity; it's envy. Life is so beautif...
YANN MARTEL Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at...
YANN MARTEL Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.
GLORIA SWANSON The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relation...
JAMES E. FAUST Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Rishte Aak Dhaage Se Baadhe Hote Hai Jiskee Door Kisi Ak Ke Hath Me Hotti Hai
Aak khechata Hai ...
ASHUTOSH CHAUDHARY Being in love is the best thing in my life.
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.
KHALIL GIBRAN No, it is actually. Life and death are less life-and-death than love is." -Nora
TIFFANY REISZ The essence of Love is life itself.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE You can't take love for granted! You need to be patient. And just as flowers take time to blossom, l...
AVIJEET DAS people who believe in a life after death are just scarred of death itself
OLIVERJOHNGAUNT I think life is a chain of events.
ZARA LARSSON Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
TED TURNER Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.
IVANKA TRUMP Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
CORITA KENT Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
ANTHONY BURGESS Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
KARRINE STEFFANS For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trill...
BEAH RICHARDS Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH 'The Lunchbox' has been a blessing - all gift-wrapped and tied with a bow. Life is a lunchbo...
NIMRAT KAUR What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
PETER HOOK Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL I love life. I love life to death.
EMMANUELLE RIVA The giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My life is a series of things that just happen.
HAROLD RUSSELL Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.
CILLA BLACK My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.
MARCIA CLARK It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ...
C. JOYBELL C. To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inext...
HENRY MILLER Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing t...
DALE CARNEGIE What do I look for in a friend?
You!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
PABLO PICASSO Love is the river of life in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups m...
ZADIE SMITH It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generousl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
ELBERT HUBBARD Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death
ELBERT HUBBARD Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO The sadest part of love life is when you cannot live with and without the one you love
AMIT ABRAHAM As powerful as religion is in life, it still cannot defeat money.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think ...
TERRY GOODKIND Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
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EDNA O'BRIEN In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.
EDNA O'BRIEN True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
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EDNA RUANO Our schedule planning folks are always looking at the markets we serve, and if we see the demand, we...
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EDNA RUANO Buffalo has been a growth market for us and now when expect it to be on the cargo side.
EDNA RUANO From 8:30 a.m. to noon, Southwest was closed for business due to fog.
EDNA RUANO We have earned the reputation of providing Latino professionals with the opportunity to find meaning...
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EDNA RODRIGUEZ My kids are devastated. They were crying.
EDNA RODRIGUEZ It was wonderful. It was cold and wet, but it didn't stop anyone. We're definitely doing it again ne...
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EDNA PIERCE Not only are we showing pictures that we have that day, but we want people to bring in their old pic...
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EDNA BEECHRAFT Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
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EDNA DEAN PROCTER I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing, "At morn the cherry-...
EDNA DEAN PROCTER Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century...
DAME EDNA EVERAGE Fashion is general. Style is individual.
EDNA WOOLMAN CHASE Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
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DAME EDNA EVERAGE I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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EDNA DEAN PROCTOR I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing, At morn the cherry-blooms ...
EDNA DEAN PROCTOR The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it m...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of a...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It is not true that is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over again.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it'...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet ther...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you m...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it ...
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I have loved badly, loved the great
Too soon, withdrawn my words too late;
And eaten in an ech...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a lit...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
EDNA O'BRIEN The undercurrent of my every thought:
To seek you, find you, have you for my own.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it pe...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I love humanity, but I hate people.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Time Does Not Bring Relief

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore...
EDNA O'BRIEN My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my frie...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY And he whose soul is flat -- the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It g...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I've been a wicked girl," said I: "But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Life must go on; I forget just why.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.Say what you wi...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It giv...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic a...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Lost in Hell,-Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, "My dear, my dear,
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Think not for this, however, the poor treasonOf my stout blood against my staggering brain,I shall r...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Tea was such a comfort.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It gives a lovely light.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Beauty is whatever gives joy.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.

Blown from the dark hill hither to my door EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I love humanity but I hate people.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Few Come This Way

Few come this way; not that the darkness
Deters them, but t...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you must ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Music my rampart, and my only one.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY TO what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer qui...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Song of a Second April

APRIL this year, not otherwise
Than April of a year ag...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Moon, that against the lintel of the west
Your forehead lean until the gate be swung,
Long...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY After all, my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Ju...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Ebb

I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a holl...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or ...
EDNA O'BRIEN Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be;
Take her head upon your knee.
S...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY For men that are afraid to die
Must warm their hands before a lie;
The fire that's built o...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Love is Not All

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a r...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Dirge Without Music

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY