#life

Yes, life has many onions. ↗

— Skip Coryell

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And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#dance #geisha #life

Life is serious...but you cannot take it seriously. ↗

— Peter Butterworth

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I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it. ↗

— Theodora Goss

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The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain ↗

— Tony-Paul de Vissage

#knowledge #learning #life #mark-twain #life

Well, life isn't always what one likes. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

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Boo'ful," she said, "life could be so diff'rent—" "But it never is," I said. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: Not Fair. And the only difference between us is Ricky's out there trying to get even. And he knows not trust anybody and he got it straight from me. And he knows not to try and get work, and guess where he got that. He walks around like there's loose boards in the floor, and you know who laid that floor, I did. ↗

— Marsha Norman

#life #trust #unfair #unfairness #unfairness-of-life