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Wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. ↗

— Ecclesiastes

#money #wine #life

Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life out, and lashed the roof, and surged among the arches, and pierced the heights of the great tower; and then the sea was dry, and all was still. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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A sense of mission lost in ink's jagged outcrops. I was trying to tell myself what I must have known before in a form I wouldn't recognize at first. ↗

— Rae Armantrout

#recognition #writing #life

But I needed this, Whit. I needed to pay him back. For stealing my life. For stealing our life together. - Celia ↗

— James Patterson

#james-pattereson #patterson #the-fire #whit #wisty

Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument—that, friends, is real wisdom. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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The whole story, paradoxically enough, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion into the preposterous sends us back with renewed pleasure to the actual. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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I had to start watching [The Real Housewives of New Jersey] every week because, well, my IQ was just too high. I mean seriously up there. What can I tell you? After watching every episode, I am now officially as dumb as that brown, particle-like stuff you find outside and don't want to track inside the house. Rhymes with "wirt", I think. ↗

— Celia Rivenbark

#reality-tv #television #life

Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#chances #choices #decisions #life #results

Life cannot have had a random beginning ... The trouble is that there are about 2000 enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10^40,000, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. ↗

— Fred Hoyle

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She wisely reasoned that my chosen husband was no ordinary man, that his whole life was absolutely dedicated to God and His service, ad that I must never, never hinder him by trying to put myself first in his heart. ↗

— Susannah Spurgeon

#wife #life