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People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.

— James Salter

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

— Amy Tan

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

— Francoise Sagan

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

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

— Om Puri

When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.

— Rihanna

What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

— Paolo Sorrentino

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

— Francoise Sagan

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.

— Pattie Boyd

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

— Pete Maravich