I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

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Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father Valentine Fleming was the Member of Parliament...

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

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Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can’t remember? The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn’t bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?

—Matthew Quick in Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

—Brendan Gill

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Man does not live by bread alone, but he also does not live long without it.

—Frederick Buechner

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Man does not live by bread alone.

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