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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

—Samuel Johnson

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I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?

—Grace Hopper

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Even if you know what's coming, you're never prepared for how it feels.

—Natalie Standiford in How to Say Goodbye in Robot

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I'd give anything right now to go back, even just for a few moments, so I could pay more attention. Inscribe every detail of him, and of us together, onto my heart, where I could keep it safe always. Where even time couldn't erase it.

—Jessi Kirby in Things We Know by Heart

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

—Woody Allen

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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

—Eric Ambler

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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To begin, begin.

—William Wordsworth

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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

—Euripides

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That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

—Lauren Miller in Parallel

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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

—Jack Kerouac

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I was different when I was attached to him. I was better.

—Courtney C. Stevens in The Lies About Truth

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Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

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Maybe forgiveness was giving the past less power to hurt me. Or even building new memories that were stronger than the painful ones.

—Courtney C. Stevens in The Lies About Truth

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