#live

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#arrivals #being #community #disadvantaged #enabled

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#different #different places #family #i #lived

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#chill #get #i #i am #know

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#everything #gets #got #how #keeps

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #before #book #books #die

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.' ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#air #bar #became #before #center

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#been #belonged #company #easy #graduated

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#being busy #busy #consciousness #everyday #happiness

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#fantasy world #find #great #illusion #life

As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#because #chose #creative #economically #feel