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The best artists know what to leave out.

—Charles de Lint

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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

—Edgar Degas

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

—Abraham Lincoln

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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

—Dave Barry

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One never gets the same summer twice.

—Philippa Gregory in Wideacre

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,/ A medley of extemporanea; /And love is a thing that can never go wrong; /And I am Marie of Romania.

—Dorothy Parker

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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

—Louis L'Amour

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There is just one life for each of us: our own.

—Euripides

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

—Stendhal

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I've hoped for this for so many years, waited for someone to come along whom you could finally love more than your family, someone who would turn you inside-out and toss you off your path.

—Bella Andre in From This Moment On

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When you work hard to get somewhere, it's quite nice to show people where you belong.

—Jojo Moyes in One Plus One

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Time would not change what I was feeling—or not feeling. I'd had time, and though the ache from his desertion hadn't disappeared, it was decreasing. My future was blurry, yes, but I was beginning to imagine a future when I would no longer miss him at all.

—Tammara Webber in Easy

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I think some people are just inexplicably bonded. Drawn by forces beyond their own comprehension, they have no choice but to gravitate toward one another. Destined by fate to keep crossing paths until they finally get it right.

—L.B. Simmons in The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller

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