If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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If you read my message, it means I am cute. If you save, you agree I am cute. If you forward, you spread that I am cute and if you delete, you are jealous, because I am cute.
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life. ~Steve Wozniak
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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