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It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love. She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.

—Kristin Hannah in Firefly Lane

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I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago.

—Walter Dean Myers in Dope Sick

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The night changed things, widening out the scope. What we said to each other, the things we did, they all took on a bigger meaning in the dark. Like time was sped up and slowed down, all at once.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.

—Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild

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Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that, isn't it?

—Arthur Golden in Memoirs of a Geisha

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As terrible as the truth was, there was something restful about it.

—Bree Despain in The Dark Divine

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I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.

—Robert Bakker

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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

—Peter Ustinov

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To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.

—Robert Copeland

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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

—Marilyn Monroe

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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

—Douglas Adams

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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

—Billy Crystal

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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

—Thomas Szasz

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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

—Oscar Wilde

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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

—Friedrich von Schiller

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