True Life Quotes
We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.
To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.
Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible.
If you stumble, you get back up. If you fall off the wagon, you have the next go at it. And then the next. And the next. And the next.
Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world - never to your own damn, silly stupid self.
Life is funny, when you are young you want to be older and those that are older wish to be younger.
Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.
A person must never live a lie. We free ourselves to live a full life by discovering the courage to face our illusions and live a true life.