“It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?”
Source: Ender's Game
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American science fiction novelist 1951Related quotes
Interview on her role in the Broadway play "Two for the Seesaw". The New York Times (1958).
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I am born into an environment — I know not whence I came nor whither I go nor who I am.”
Science and Humanism (1951)
Context: I am born into an environment — I know not whence I came nor whither I go nor who I am. This is my situation as yours, every single one of you. The fact that everyone always was in this same situation, and always will be, tells me nothing. Our burning question as to the whence and whither — all we can ourselves observe about it is the present environment. That is why we are eager to find out about it as much as we can. That is science, learning, knowledge; it is the true source of every spiritual endeavour of man. We try to find out as much as we can about the spatial and temporal surroundings of the place in which we find ourselves put by birth…
“I come from dying, not from having been born. From having been born I am going.”
Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido me voy.
Voces (1943)
“I don't know, I think he's just going senile, isn't he?”
Noel Gallagher cited in ‘Sir Paul has just written manure for years’ http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/music/sir-paul-has-just-written-manure-for-years-1-611044 at scotsman.com, 2 July 2002: Gallagher was asked about Paul McCartney’s recent work in another interview.
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