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That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and they're relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

—Will Rogers

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

—Aristotle

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My work is a game, a very serious game.

—M. C. Escher

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I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.

—Sally Kempton

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My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.

—Rita Rudner

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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

—Fran Lebowitz

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Books to the ceiling,/ Books to the sky,/ My pile of books is a mile high./ How I love them! How I need them!/ I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

—Arnold Lobel

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Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

—Amelia Earhart

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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

—Eugene Ionesco

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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

—William Wordsworth

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The groves were God's first temples.

—William C. Bryant

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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

—Black Elk

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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

—Pablo Picasso

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

—George Bernard Shaw

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