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The sun rises the next day after mothers lose their babies, after men lose their wives, after countries lose wars. The sun will rise no matter what pain we encounter. No matter how much we believe the world to be over, the sun will rise.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in After I Do

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Deciding to get back together with someone is a complicated and difficult decision. Just remember that the person you are getting back together with is the same person who, not long before, looked you in your beautiful face, took full stock of you and all your qualities, and told you that he was no longer in need of your company.

—Greg Behrendt in He's Just Not That Into You

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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote.

—Edward Young

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

—Oscar Wilde

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I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

—Johnny Carson

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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

—Groucho Marx

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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

—Muhammad Iqbal

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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

—Joseph Brodsky

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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

—Rebecca West

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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

—Henry Miller

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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

—Iris Murdoch

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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

—Woody Allen

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I think sometimes people have to truly lose someone and feel that pain to know that it is real and there is no other.

—Leigh Ann Lunsford

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