#livin

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#enough #had #had enough #itself #life

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#doing #fighters #fighting #find #give

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes. ↗

— Eva Green

#end #i #living #making #maybe

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer. ↗

— John Green

#center #chicago #city #during #economic

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books. ↗

— John Green

#books #i #living #lot #read

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. ↗

— John Green

#cancer #creatures #easy #either #else

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#black #black and white #create #doing #fancy

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100. ↗

— William Greider

#chance #children #living #today

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#being #everything #eyes #god #hands