We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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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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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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