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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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fakenamaIndependence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever fiddle around in any way with electrical equipment. Never. ~Daniel Handler
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~Anna Kournikova
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. ~Rodney Dangerfield
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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proverbiosThe morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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