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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

—Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice

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I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

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Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf

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The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

—Lisa Scottoline in Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog

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You don't need a significant other to lead a significant life.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.

—Karen Marie Moning

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

—Ed Gardner

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I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.

—Graffito

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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

—Milton Friedman

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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

—Ronald Reagan

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

—Greek Proverb

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It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

—Franklin P. Jones

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

—George Bernard Shaw

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

—George Eliot

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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

—Samuel Johnson

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