Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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The necessity for "professionals" in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. ~Jason Alexander
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are. ~James Redfield
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. ~Junot Diaz
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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