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Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

—Anne Carson

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The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what the "story of the trees" would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand.

—Charles R. Skinner

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Your entire life changes the day that you decide you will no longer accept mediocrity for yourself.

—Hal Elrod in The Miracle Morning

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If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her―then don't let her go.

—Nicholas Sparks in Message In A Bottle

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I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

—Simon Van Booy in The Secret Lives of People in Love

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Any kind of romantic entanglement is the farthest thing from my mind right now.

—Kim Karr in Blurred

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That makes me nervous for some reason, to think that something that's such a big deal now could end up being nothing in the future.

—Lauren Barnholdt in Two Way Street

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I wanted a guy who made my stomach flutter, who was polite and respectful to everyone because he didn't think of anybody as beneath him, a man who did good things not because of what he'd gain but simply because it was the right thing to do. I wanted someone that cared about the injustices of the world and tried to help even if the issue didn't affect his life.

—Skyla Madi in Your Guardian Angel

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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

—Charles Lamb

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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

—Eric Hoffer

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

—Sophocles

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

—Evelyn Waugh

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If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

—Dick Cavett

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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

—Woody Allen

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