We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature. ~Zeno of Citium
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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