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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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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

—Jeanette Winterson in Weight

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No matter how obvious something may seem, there are two sides to every story.

—Erin Bowman in Taken

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One day I know I'll be moving on, but I fear you'll always be right there holding a piece of my heart that'll never belong to me. And I'll live my life, find reasons to smile so everyone will always think that you didn't shake me and totally break me. They'll never know I'll never be free.

—Abbi Glines in Sometimes It Lasts

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