What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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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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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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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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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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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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