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I like to play chess with old men in the park. But it's so hard to find 32 of them.

—Emo Phillips

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Everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end. I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.

—Ann Patchett in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

—Ann Patchett in State of Wonder

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If he never loved her the way she loved him, it was going to be okay. It was truly better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Her heart would survive this, and would be richer for having known him.

—Lori Wilde in Back in the Game

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Friendships take just as much TLC as romantic relationships.

—Lori Wilde in Somebody to Love

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Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

—Evan Davis

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When one parent dies, the world is dramatically altered, absolutely, but you still have another one left. When that second parent dies, it's the loss of all ties, and where does that leave you? You lose your history, your sense of connection to the past. You also lose the final buffer between you and death. Even if you're an adult, it's weird to be orphaned.

—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters

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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

—Saki

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

—Anne Lamott in Joe Jones

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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life ― it has given me me. It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be.

—Anne Lamott in Plan B

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As I was walking up the stair / I met a man who wasn't there. / He wasn't there again today. / I wish, I wish he'd stay away.

—Hughes Mearns

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I didn't know if I believed in 'happily ever after' anymore. I mean, I didn't know what would happen tomorrow, let alone for forever and ever after. But I did know that I was happy, right there, right then, with him. And that was all I needed to know.

—Stephanie Kate Strohm in Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink

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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

—Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird

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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

—Diogenes the Cynic

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