"Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better."

-- Paul Bowles

#Life Is Quotes

“Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.”
“My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.”
“It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?”

Source : Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unabridged): 10 Novels & 80+ Short Stories: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, John Silence Series, Jimbo, The Willows, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Wave, The Listener…”, p.2578, e-artnow
“If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.”
“With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.”
“You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.”

Source : "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.
“If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them”

Source : "Julie Bowen: Reese Witherspoon's mommy advice 'saved my life'". www.foxnews.com. August 10, 2016.
“Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.”

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