#existence

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#connection #conscription #dates #except #existence

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#career #existence #how #image #know

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#creativity #endowed #every #existence #god

When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#centre #come #down #existence #go

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#earthly #existence #going #living #living room

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. ↗

— Romain Rolland

#days #dream #dreams #earliest #earth

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about. ↗

— Karl Rove

#amusement #creates #existence #i #know

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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Mariac tells us about the books he's read, the painters he's liked, the plays he's seen. He finds himself by looking in the works of others. He defines his own faith by a passionate anger against Gide the Luciferian. Reading his 'memories' is like meeting a man on a train who says, 'Don't look at me; that's misleading. If you want to know what I'm like, wait until we're in a tunnel, and then study my reflection in the window.' You wait, and look, and catch a face against a shifting background of sooty walls, cables, and sudden brickwork. The transparent shape flickers and jumps, always a few feet away. You become accustomed to its existence, you move with its movements; and though you know its presence is conditional, you feel it to be permanent. Then there is a wail from ahead, a roar and a burst of light; the face is gone for ever. ↗

— Julian Barnes

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