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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

—Mark Twain

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We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

—Tom Robbins

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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one

—C. S. Lewis

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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

—Alfred North Whitehead

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It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

—Jerry Seinfeld

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Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it.

—Horace Greeley

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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

—Henry David Thoreau

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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever. Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?

—Aidan Chambers in This is All

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When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

—Charles Baxter in Burning Down the House

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Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

—Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements

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Mistakes are really not that big of a deal. In fact, as most of us acknowledge, we need to make mistakes in order to learn and to grow.

—Richard Carlson in The Big Book of Small Stuff

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This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

—Daniel Ellsberg

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If you live in the past, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is.

—Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements

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I couldn’t love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn’t love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that’s all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you.

—Rainbow Rowell in Attachments

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I can deal with anything, as long as I know it’s the truth. It’s the lies that are hard.

—Jennifer Laurens in Penitence

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