“Men. You can't live with them, you can't… no. That's about it.”

— Regina King

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actress 1971

Susan Andersen (1950) American writer

Source: Burning Up

“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Men. You can't live with them… and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.”

Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) German-American actress and singer

“You don't know me, but I know about you… I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.”

Lurlene McDaniel (1944) American writer

Source: Sixteen and Dying

“If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer

Source: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

“The thing is nowadays, you'll have 20 men working, yet 60 men telling them 'You can't do that, you ain't got a tin hat on'.”

Fred Dibnah (1938–2004) English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering

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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Cited as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom from the 1940s onwards https://books.google.com/books?id=iNkWAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others.+You+can%27t+live+long+enough+to+make+them+all+yourself%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22make+them+all+yourself%22. Not attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt until 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=ctxi36FCi18C&pg=PA151&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others%22+%22live+long%22+roosevelt&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI_sD5mqDLAhWIKGMKHb8HAZ0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Learn%20from%20the%20mistakes%20of%20others%22%20%22live%20long%22%20roosevelt&f=false.
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“You've got the temperament of a scholar, and you live on your own and write books. You don't have anything to do with civilization. You've been in London a few days and you can't wait to get back home. But how about the people who can't write books -- people there's no outlet for in this civilization? What about your new men who don't know what to do?”

Colin Wilson (1931–2013) author

Source: The Glass Cage (1966), p. 200

“So I can't live either without you or with you.”
Sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum.

Ovid book Amores

Variant translation: Thus, I can neither live without you nor with you.
Book III; xib, 39
Compare: Nec possum tecum vivere nec sine te ("I cannot live with you nor without you"), Martial, Epigrams XII, 46
Amores (Love Affairs)

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