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“As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.”

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Author:Allan Bloom
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“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

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Book:In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage
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“Don't take life too seriously.”

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Book:Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style
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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw
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“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

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Author:Mark Twain
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“A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.”

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Author:Vivian Gornick
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“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.”

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Author:Robert Jones Burdette
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“A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.”

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Book:Closing of the American Mind
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