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One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

—Robert Fortune

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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

—Saul Bellow

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

—Pablo Picasso

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The history of art is the history of revivals.

—Samuel Butler

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Art depends on luck and talent.

—Francis Ford Coppola

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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

—W. H. Auden

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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

—Calvin Trillin

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I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

—Charles Darwin

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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

—Joey Adams

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People fight over parking spaces more than they do for each other; then they bemoan the fact they can't find love.

—Donna Lynn Hope

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It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

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If she looked at him, he'd see how vulnerable she was. He'd see her mess of emotions. Right now, her face was an open book. And everything she didn't want him to read was written all over it.

—Leia Shaw in Boy Meets Nerd

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It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth.

—Jennifer Echols in Such a Rush

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If you're still waiting for it, it means you're not yet ready for it…whatever "it" is. So stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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I'd spent a summer with those same eyes—scared, lost, confused—staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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