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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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian 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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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God. ~Kelly Rowland
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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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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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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