If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home. ~Daphne Guinness
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. ~Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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