He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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