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I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don't really want you to go. I want you to stay, but I know you shouldn't.

—Rachel Gibson in True Confessions

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To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

—Aziz Ansari in Modern Romance

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I believe in fate, and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life.

—Ella Frank in Exquisite 

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Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.

—Franklin P. Jones

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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

—Sam Levenson

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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

—H. L. Mencken

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The terrible thing about falling in love is that real life always gets in the way.

—Jodi Picoult in Off the Page

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There's that thing that can happen to you when you meet somebody and you don't consider them extraordinary at all and then they do something like play the cello or write amazing poetry or sing and suddenly you look at them completely differently.

—Yvonne Prinz in The Vinyl Princess

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Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

—Anna Godbersen in Splendor

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The whole "weak in the knees" thing, which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions, was real.

—Maureen Johnson in Suite Scarlett

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A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

—Piet Hein

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All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.

—Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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Less is more.

—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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There is still no cure for the common birthday.

—John Glenn

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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

—Jean-Luc Godard

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