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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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That's the way it goes. Some things happen—and some things don't. This one obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down…I still believe it was.

—Sophie Kinsella in The Undomestic Goddess

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

—G. K. Chesterton

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In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.

—Mogens Jallberg

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All phone calls are obscene.

—Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...

—Isaac Asimov

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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

—Carl Sagan

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Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.

—Martin Mull

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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

—Will Rogers

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Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

—Stephen Leacock

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

—Susan Rice

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