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It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

—Lisa Schroeder in Far from You

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Is there life before death?

—Graffito

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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

—Evan Esar

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The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

—William C. Bryant

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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

—Ad Reinhardt

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Never floss with a stranger.

—Joan Rivers

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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

—Sue Monk Kidd in The Secret Life of Bees

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If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juicy middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More

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Relationships always started with that heady, swoonish period, where the other person is like some new invention that suddenly solves all life's worst problems, like losing socks in the dryer or toasting bagels without burning the edges. At this phase, which usually lasts about six weeks max, the other person is perfect. But at six weeks and two days, the cracks begin to show; not real structural damage yet, but little things that niggle and nag. Like the way they always assume you'll pay for your own movie, just because you did once, or how they use the dashboard of their car as an imaginary keyboard at long stoplights. Once, you might have thought this was cute, or endearing. Now, it annoys you, but not enough to change anything. Come week eight, though, the strain is starting to show. This person is, in fact, human, and here's where most relationships splinter and die. Because either you can stick around and deal with these problems, or ease out gracefully, knowing that at some point in the not-too-distant future, there will emerge another perfect person, who will fix everything, at least for six weeks.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

—Mark Twain

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Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

—Unknown

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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

—Art Buchwald

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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

—Carl von Clausewitz

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