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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

—Mark Twain

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Isn’t it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle—it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It’s not an act of bitterness. It’s an act of self-preservation.

—Ally Condie in First Day

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All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

—Virgil

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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

—William Butler Yeats

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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

—Christopher Morley

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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

—Agatha Christie

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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

—Peter Ustinov

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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

—Edith Sitwell

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Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.

—Marcus Brigstocke

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For me, it’s about morning, quiet, solitude and no Internet to plug me into the cacophony until I have written something. Also about not having a conversation with anyone. Which might be why I am single. I have often woken up to a person next to me who says in a sleepy affectionate way ‘Hey—what are you up today?’ and I answer but all I am thinking is ‘You killed it! It’s over! Now I can’t write today.’

—Guinevere Turner

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I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

—Jimmy Breslin

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

—Galileo Galilei

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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

—Thomas Fuller

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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

—Leonard Bernstein

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