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You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

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I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

—Daniel Handler in Why We Broke Up

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I don't want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

—Scott Berkun

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There is only one thing I fear now—love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.

—Jennifer Donnelly in Revolution

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Why must everything be repeat and repeat, never finish, never resting? You work so hard one day, but the next day you must only work again. You eat, but the next day, you are already hungry. You find love, then love goes away. You are born with nothing, you work hard, then you die with nothing. You are young, then you are old. No matter how hard you work, you cannot stop getting old.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf

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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

—Edward Gibbon

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He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.

—Don Juan Manuel

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If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough

—Mario Andretti

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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

—Samuel Goldwyn

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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

—P. J. O'Rourke

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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

—Floyd Dell

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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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Music is essentially useless, as life is.

—George Santayana

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Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret? Too much support hurts.

—R. Stevens

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