Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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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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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. ~Ellen Page
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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