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One day," she told us, "you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be. ↗

— Michael Morpurgo

#letting-go #life

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writers #writing-process #life

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#fact #i #laugh #make #secret

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fiction #fictional #life #meaning #pattern

We stayed all day long. We closed our eyes and paryed, which we had not doen together in a long time. The nurse came in and out of the room. Everything felt awful and I wondered why the whole world didn't seem to notice how bad things really were. I thought of how I'd gotten used to awful, how after my dad died the planets kept on spinning and I got up and ate breakfast every morning and kept going to school. Something happens and it's terrible and you think you can't live another day, but then your mother gets used to it and you get used to it and you both keep on living, and you're not sure if that getting-used-to-things is good or the way life should be. ↗

— Margaret McMullan

#getting-used-to-things #happens #keep-on-living #live-another-day #mother

Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions. ↗

— Arvid Carlsson

#actions #against #drink #effect #kinds

We—all of us—want to feel special. We want to feel the glory that shines on us when we reach beyond our boundaries to grab at something greater, to live a heroic life, if only for a day or a week or a moment. This simple yearning is in us all, hardly recognizable, often only the merest hint that there is something more to us. This is why we seek out new places...we want to remember a somewhere that gave us the space to expand ourselves, to become a little more of who we truly are. ↗

— J.E. Leigh

#travel-writing #life

What doesn't kill you will make you stronger ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#life #parenting #life

Interesting things happen to interesting people... ↗

— Dreamergirl

#interesting #lessons-learned #life #life

It's got to be a nice life, long as you don't get caught. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life #life