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It's funny that when the one person you live for is ripped out of your life you can still find a way to convince yourself it's for the best and that you will eventually get over it.

What a joke.

—Cassia Leo in Pieces of You

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The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

—Katharine Hepburn

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.

—George Ade

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

—Samuel McChord Crothers

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We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

—Mark Twain

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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

—Sydney J. Harris

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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

—Charles Kettering

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We must return to nature and nature's god.

—Luther Burbank

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

—Henrik Ibsen

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

—Robert Quillen

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