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“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“What can't be cured must be endured.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air