I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun. ~Hafez
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. ~Brian Austin Green
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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