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Death doesn't take the time to knock on the door.

—Yiddish folk saying

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There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen.

—Carlos Fuentes

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The absence of the dead . . . is their way of appearing.

—Simone Weil

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Time to plant tears, says the Almanac.

—Elizabeth Bishop

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The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat.

—Claudia Gray in Evernight

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I am in love. For the first time in my life, utterly and completely, I have fallen in love, and I can not believe it myself.

—Philippa Gregory in The Boleyn Inheritance

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What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

—Isaac Marion in Warm Bodies

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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

—Bobby Knight

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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

—J. M. Barrie

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A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

—Thomas Mann

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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

—Dr. Seuss

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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

—E. O. Wilson

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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

—John Burroughs

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I paint as if I were Rothschild.

—Paul Cezanne

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They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

—Bil Keane

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