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The Schofield Kid (a young gunfighter feeling guilt after his first killing): It don't seem real. . . . Now he's dead and the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger.
Will Munny: It's a helluva thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have. Kid: Well, I guess they had it coming.
Munny: We all have it coming, kid.

—David Webb Peoples, in his screenplay for the film Unforgiven

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True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." 

—Sydney J. Harris

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Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

—Kimberly Johnson

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It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights. But on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones I've never gotten credit for.

—Glenn Gould

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public-relations officers.

—Daniel Boorstin

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If I had kept all these things neatly sorted and filed and labelled, it would save me a lot of trouble. However, it is a pleasure sometimes, when looking vaguely through a pile of old note-books to find something scribbled down, as: Possible plot—do it yourself—girl and not really sister—August— with a kind of sketch of a plot. What it's all about I can't remember now; but it often stimulates me, if not to write that identical plot, at least to write something else.

—Agatha Christie in An Autobiography

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Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you're not there anymore. It's better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.

—Mary Karr

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If you don't love yourself, you'll always be chasing after people who don't love you either.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Day

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Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

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That's how it is when a person develops an attraction toward someone. He's nowhere, then suddenly he's everywhere, whether you want him to be or not.

—Colleen Hoover in Ugly Love

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My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I'm surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you're different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they can't be bothered with anything besides their own narcissism. You aren't like that. You still ask questions. You're still looking for the answers.

—Ryan O'Connell in I Want To Know You

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Sometimes you have to know when to let hope go.

—Jennifer L. Armentrout in Deity

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