Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
#quotes #steig-larsson #desire #addiction

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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