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Life is not fair; get used to it.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I’d died. I’ve been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife – I’ve had a few so it’s hard to pinpoint which one – but who knows for sure?

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.