No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ~David Hyde Pierce
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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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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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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