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It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

—Jodi Picoult in Between the Lines

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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

—Ambrose Bierce

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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

—Abraham Lincoln

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You can't buy a clean conscience.

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

—Winston Churchill

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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

—William H. Mauldin

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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

—Charles Lamb

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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

—Otto Dix

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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

—Ansel Adams

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You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

—Laurence J. Peter

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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

—Will Rogers

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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Sniffling into my pillow, I waited for the hole in my heart to stop stabbing me with pain. I waited to not feel like my life was over. That's all I felt, though…that everything was over.

—S.C. Stephens in Effortless

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

—William Hazlitt

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