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“The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.”

Knows Trying Enough Stories Seems Our Lives Scene Late Love Story Familiar Riddle Elude Elude Us Meaning Nothing

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.”

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.”

Heart Stills Dream Past Young Joy Growth Memories United Our Lives Scene Chains Bliss Branches Silver Linked Chords Vines Sprung Fostering

Author:Alan Cooper

“An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.”

Men Matter Age Watches Gone Our Lives Stage Scene Stranger Tone Touched What Matters Reversal

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

“There's a great rock and roll scene in Sweden. There are many smaller bands like ourselves that are great. Oh yes, there's a band called Eggstone, they're really good, and a band called the Soundtrack Of Our Lives, which is excellent.”

Our Lives Rocks Scene Band Excellent Rock And Roll Sweden Soundtracks

Author:Nina Persson

“The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.”

Whole Form Ability Our Lives Share Scene Valuable Valuable Things

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.”

Littles Important Shows Wanted Difficult Behinds Half Records Our Lives Wife Scene Lucky Quiet Band Smart Guitar Partners Checks Like Me Behind The Scenes Very Smart Guitar Music

Author:Johnny Marr