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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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
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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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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish 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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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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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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