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  • Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

    Mother   Laughter   Balls  
  • When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

  • Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

    Dana Gioia (2002). “Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture”, Graywolf Pr
  • The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.

    Stars   Men   Hands  
  • If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.

    Baseball   Hurt   Real  
  • Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

    Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.16, Random House
  • All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?

    Liars   Lying   Mean  
    Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.31, Vintage
  • Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life.

  • I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.

    Flying   Secret   Trying  
  • More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

    Bill W., Dick B (2011). “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition”, p.85, Courier Corporation
  • Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.

    Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.
  • Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

    Pride   Gay   Thinking  
  • As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

  • Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

    Life   Power   Unique  
  • I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.

    Sex   Hate   Men  
  • I'm pretty down to earth, I always have been and though I am on a much different path than most 25 year olds, I feel like I have a bit of a double life. We will go on tour for weeks at a time, but when I come home, I feel like I am picking up where I left off.

    Home   Years   Different  
    Source: www.roomthirteen.com
  • I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

    Thinking   Two   Said  
  • A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.

  • If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

    Love   Funny   Life  
  • I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives.

  • There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

    Spring   Light   Quality  
    Edgar Allan Poe, “Sonnet - Silence”
  • I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

  • Anyone who still feels today that he has to lead a double life because he's gay is driven by a fear that I think is unfounded.

    Gay   Thinking   Today  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

    Mean   Two   Patterns  
    Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.31, Vintage
  • We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

    Jobs   Thinking   Faces  
  • I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

    'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 2
  • The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.

    Writing   People   Depth  
  • Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.

  • It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

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