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Sometimes it seemed like those with the most rotten interiors were blessed with the most exquisite exteriors.

—Sara B. Larson in Defy

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How could I have been so stupid? All this time, I've been certain he feels the same way about me. I was so sure that my feelings were requited that I'd convinced myself he was just getting up the courage to confess. But I was wrong.

—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney

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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

—James Thurber

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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

—Herman Melville

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The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

—George C. Marshall

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I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.

—Craig Newmark

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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home.

—Rodney Dangerfield

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It takes two flints to make a fire.

—Louisa May Alcott

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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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A good garden may have some weeds.

—Thomas Fuller

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Shadow owes its birth to light.

—John Gay

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If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

—Bill Watterson

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It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

—Lionel Trilling

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