Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
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We had been busy building up fibre infrastructure under the ground in Hong Kong and underneath the homes of people, so when we launched IPTV, it was relatively smoother sailing than in other territories. ~Richard Li
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish 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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