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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in histo

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it. – Jean Anouilh

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Life is very nice, but it lacks form. Its the aim of art to give it some. – Jean Anouilh

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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. Its easy to say no, even if it means dying. – Jean Anouilh

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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. – Louis LAmour

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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. – H.L. Mencken

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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. – Joyce Carol Oates

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A lot of young players dont really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherines beauty and Renees frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were. – Colleen Atwood

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