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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

—Flannery O'Connor

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I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

—Ernst Fischer

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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say.

—Henny Youngman

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This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

—Richard Burton

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If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

—Bernard Williams

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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

—J. M. Barrie

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Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you've met them before?

—JoAnne Kenrick in When A Mullo Loves A Woman

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It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More

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The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

—Bette Midler

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

—Robert Frost

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

—George Bernard Shaw

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You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

—George Burns

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

—William Shakespeare

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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

—Franz Liszt

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