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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

—Lynda Barry

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Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

—Fran Lebowitz

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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

—Fred Allen

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A good beginning makes a good end.

—Louis L'Amour

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

—Thomas Hardy

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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

—Orson Scott Card

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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

—Thomas Jefferson

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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

—Freya Stark

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I couldn't stop staring at his mouth when he spoke. I bet he knew how to kiss. Perfect kisses too, ones that weren't wet and gross, but the kind that curled toes. I needed to stop looking at him in general.

—Jennifer L. Armentrout in Obsidian

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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

—Charles Kuralt

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The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.

—Wendy Wunder in The Probability of Miracles

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When you love someone, you'll do anything you can to keep them with you. Unfortunately, there is also a point when you have to step back and say that it's time to let go.

—Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

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I have such poor vision I can date anybody.

—Garry Shandling

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Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

—Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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