In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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