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The years teach much which the days never know.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

—Walt Whitman

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

—Edmund Burke

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

—George Santayana

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

—Ambrose Bierce

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

—Max Eastman

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

—Samuel Johnson

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

—Henny Youngman

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

—Steven Wright

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

—Samuel Butler

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

—Madame de Stael

The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.

—Karen Kingsbury in Even Now

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

—Cecelia Ahern in  P.S. I Love You

Love can make us do dreadful things.

—Ann Aguirre in Doubleblind