"For what are we born if not to aid one another?"
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"Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press."
"I never went bungee jumping. The closest I did was I was born."
"Negativity is born in the gap where love has been excluded."
"Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear."
"You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life."
"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another."
"To live is to be slowly born."
"Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born."
"The victory of endurance born."
"Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer."
"I was born free as Caesar; so were you"
"Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do."
"He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but the will – That can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention."
"Every man is an impossibility until he is born."
"I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of"
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all."
"We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid."
"On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman."
"It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came."