I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Living is risking.
In my early 20s, living in a communist regime in Romania, success to me simply meant leaving and coming to America.
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
Just a decade after 'Living in Bondage,' Nollywood films, made in some 300 languages, were being watched in both urban and rural areas, distributed on both the streets and online, and finding their way into international festivals.
Russian people are not stupid. They know that the system we are living in is undemocratic.
Newfoundlanders, what are we? We're slobbering idiots, slack-jawed simpletons, rustic fish billies living in Dogpatch-on-the-rocks, lower than lower Slobovians, the laughing stock and 'white trash' of Canada.
Here in South Korea, I'm continuing to learn English in order to boost my prospects. When North Korean defectors try to get a job to stabilize their lives, their lack of English is a handicap. It was the same story while I was living in China. It took an enormous amount of time and enthusiasm to learn Chinese.
Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.
No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
