I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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