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I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.


John Grisham


#fault #going #had #i #lawyer

I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.


Jason Gray


#living-life-to-the-fullest #living-now #love #passion #life

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.


Charles Baxter


#life

when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters,making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.


Galen Beckett


#life

Coincidences are spiritual puns.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#puns #spiritual

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.


Maurice Baring


#deadly #difference #enjoy #fun #games

At the sight of the flag he tasted tears in his throat. In the Stars and Stripes all the passions of his life coalesced to produce the ache with which he loved the United States of America - with which he loved the dirty, plain, honest faces of GIs in the photographs of World War Two, with which he loved the sheets of rain rippling across the green playing field toward the end of the school year, with which he cherished the sense-memories of the summers in his childhood, the many Kansas summers, running the bases, falling harmlessly onto the grass, his head beating with heat, the stunned streets of breezeless afternoons, the thick, palpable shade of colossal elms, the muttering of radios beyond the windowsills, the whirring of redwing blackbirds, the sadness of the grown-ups at their incomprehensible pursuits, the voices carrying over the yards in the dusks that fell later and later, the trains moving through town into the sky. His love for his country, his homeland, was a love for the United States of America in the summertime.


Denis Johnson


#patriotism #life

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.


Howard Barker


#behavior #dangerous #dark #dark place #giving

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.


Maureen Duffy


#life #love #perpetual #life