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Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says, "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed" — because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.

—E. Lockhart in Real Live Boyfriends

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It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

—Lurlene McDaniel in Breathless

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Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

—Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

—Oscar Wilde

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Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

—John Lennon

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Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

—Norm Papernick

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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

—Richard Wright

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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

—Luis Barragan

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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

—Andrew Wyeth

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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

—Victor Hugo

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

—William Lyon Phelps

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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

—Mortimer Adler

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