But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. ~Mike Pence
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well; nothing. ~Phoebe Tonkin
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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