I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting their luxurious homes and top-quality private schools.
In France, it's really different the way you live. It's a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a private thing.
But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.
I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern-day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It's called human trafficking.
I imagine a world in which AI is going to make us work more productively, live longer, and have cleaner energy.
Live truth instead of professing it.
The struggle to write with profundity of emotion and at the same time to live like a millionaire so exhausted F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was at last brought down to the point where he could no longer be both a good writer and a decent person.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
I used to live in Philly, so I was in Baltimore a lot wrestling before I got to WWE, wrestling for different promotions.
Some people have proposed universal basic income, UBI, basically making sure that everybody gets a certain amount of money to live off of. I think that's a wonderful idea. The problem is, we haven't been able to guarantee universal healthcare in this country.
I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me.
With Black Lives Matter, we knew from the very beginning that it wasn't just going to live online. We were like, 'We're creating this thing and then it's also going to live with black folks on the street and protests and organizations.' It was very important for us to use the hashtag as a way to have a larger conversation and as an organizing tool.
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
My first tattoo is a French proverb, and it says, 'Dream your life, live your dreams.'
The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.
