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Knowing he was suffering pained me. That's the way love tangles you up. I couldn't stop loving him, and couldn't shut off the feelings of wanting to care for him—but I also didn't have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.

—Paula McLain in The Paris Wife

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Some things are just perfect, even when they don't make any sense.

—Bella Andre in Come A Little Bit Closer

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I've always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can't love be simple? Why can't it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can't live as well, or as happily, apart as they can together?

—Bella Andre in Come A Little Bit Closer

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What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

—Doug Larson

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I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.

—Mitch Hedberg

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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

—Henry James

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The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.

—Will Rogers

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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

—G. K. Chesterton

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

—George Chapman

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

—William Allingham

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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

—C. S. Lewis

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

—Theodore Dreiser

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Art is not a thing; it is a way.

—Elbert Hubbard

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

—Mark Twain

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