We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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