Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear; but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister; but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went. ~J. J. Abrams
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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