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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

—John Updike in My Father’s Tears and Other Stories

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

—Paul Valéry

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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

—E. B. White

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Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

—G. K. Chesterton

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When you can’t be honest with people, you can’t ever relax with them.

—Dorothy Koomson in My Best Friend’s Girl

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The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

—Daniel Webster

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I don’t think that anything happens by coincidence. No one is here by accident. Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason.

—James Redfield in The Celestine Prophecy

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Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.

—Robert A. Heinlein in Time Enough for Love

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Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

—Frantz Fanon

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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

—Horace Walpole

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The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

—Laurence J. Peter

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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

—Aidan Chambers in Dying to Know You

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Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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Be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in A Stroke of Midnight

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

—Winston Churchill

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