“It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.”
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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963Related quotes
The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)
“I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself… I'll run to be emancipated.”
Source: Looking for Alibrandi
Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Jöns Jacob Berzelius Essai sur la théorie des proportions chemiques (1819), 98. Quoted by Henry M. Leicester in article on Bessel in Charles Coulston Gillespie (editor), Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1981), Vol. 2, 94.
New millennium, AP Interview: Ex-Intel head pushes electric cars, 2008
“Thus would I double my life's fading space;
For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”
Discourse xi, Of Myself, stanza xi; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For he lives twice who can at once employ / The present well, and ev'n the past enjoy", Alexander Pope, Imitation of Martial.
Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954).
Variant: It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
"If I Were Twenty-One" in Coronet (December 1955).
This has also been paraphrased "What matters most is not the years in your life, but the life in your years" and misattributed to Abraham Lincoln and Mae West
Context: All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind. Don't be afraid of being out of tune with your environment, and above all pray God that you are not afraid to live, to live hard and fast. To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run. You'll have more fun, you'll do more and you'll get more, you'll give more satisfaction the more you know, the more you have worked, and the more you have lived. For yours is a great adventure at a stirring time in the annals of men.
“The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.”
Source: Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
