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- He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride
- Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
- Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
- The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Remarkable Rocket"
- I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
- Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
- I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965), The Courage to Be
- Man always gets less than he demands from life.
- Jack London (1876 - 1916), The People of the Abyss
- Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971), No One Here Gets Out Alive
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