You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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Lovely message for a lovely person, from lovely friend, for a lovely reason, at a lovely time, from a lovely mind, in a lovely mood, in a lovely style, to wish you; have a lovely birthday...
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ~James Harden
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Rose is famous for grace, advocate is famous for case, horse is famous for race. But you are famous for sweetness on your face.
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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