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If I were you, I'd be glad to be rid of him. Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

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I'm as pure as the driven slush.

—Tallulah Bankhead

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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

—George Santayana

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When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

—Brendan Behan

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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

—Ronald Reagan

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

—Japanese proverb

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What happens when the future has come and gone?

—Robert Half

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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

—Joey Adams

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

—J. M. Barrie

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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

—Ring Lardner

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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

—Margaret Halsey

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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

—Leo Buscaglia

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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

—Elbert Hubbard

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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

—James A. Baldwin

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