I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again. ~Mara Wilson
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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