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Grace and Frankie

We’ll all be dead from loose nukes long before most of that stuff happens.

Mallory: I feel like there aren’t a lot of surprises for me down the road. You know, my kids will grow up, they’ll move away, I’ll become a grandmother, I’ll get my face done, my grandkids will graduate from college, I’ll get my face redone, and then I’ll die.
Bree: I mean, that’s silly. We’ll all be dead from loose nukes long before most of that stuff happens.
Mallory: You think?

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Jack Kerouac

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life.

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Jack Kerouac

Believe in the holy contour of life

Believe in the holy contour of life

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

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Mad Men

What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.

Don Draper: The reason you haven’t felt it is because it doesn’t exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons. You’re born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I’m living like there’s no tomorrow, because there isn’t one.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again.

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.

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Sherlock

In real life. People don’t have archenemies.

Watson: People don’t have archenemies.
Holmes: What?
Watson: In real life. People don’t have archenemies.
Holmes: That sounds a bit dull. So what do people have in their real lives?
Watson: Friends, people they like, people they don’t like, boyfriends, girlfriends.
Holmes: Like I said, dull.

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Jack Kerouac

All of life is a foreign country.

All of life is a foreign country.

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Marcus Aurelius

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

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Dean Kamen

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn’t matter?

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn’t matter, that doesn’t try to do something big?

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Jack Kerouac

Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.

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Wilson Mizner

Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

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Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Life here began out there.

Adama: Are they the lucky ones? That’s what you’re thinking, isn’t it? We’re a long way from home. We’ve jumped way beyond the Red Line, into uncharted space. Limited supplies, limited fuel. No allies, and now, no hope? Maybe it would have been better for us to have died quickly, back on the Colonies with our families, instead of dying out here slowly, in the emptiness of dark space. Where shall we go? What shall we do? Life here began out there.

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Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Are you alive? Prove it.

Number Six: Are you alive?
Military Liaison: Yes.
Number Six: Prove it.

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Oscar Wilde

Somehow or other I’ll be famous, and if not famous, I’ll be notorious.

I’ll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I’ll be famous, and if not famous, I’ll be notorious. Or perhaps I’ll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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Virginia Woolf

down in the garden there is a man digging who buried his father this morning

We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious bookcases, but down in the garden there is a man digging who buried his father this morning, and it is he and his like who live the real life and speak the real language.

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Virginia Woolf

What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

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William Hazlitt

All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.

All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.

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William Hazlitt

Well, I’ve had a happy life.

Well, I’ve had a happy life.

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William Hazlitt

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

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William Hazlitt

Look up, laugh loud, talk big

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man.

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Neil Gaiman

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

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Toni Morrison

At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.

At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don’t need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

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William Faulkner

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.

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The Walking Dead

Seriously, how long do you think they got?

Glenn: Admit it, you only came back to Atlanta for the hat.
Rick Grimes: Don’t tell anybody.
Daryl Dixon: You’ve given away half our guns and ammo.
Glenn: Not nearly half.
Daryl Dixon: For what? A bunch of old farts who are gonna die off momentarily anyhow? Seriously, how long do you think they got?
Glenn: How long do any of us?