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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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Free advice is worth the price.

—Robert Half

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I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

—Veronica Roth in Allegiant

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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

—Laurence J. Peter

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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

—Indira Gandhi

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Some people think that a place can save them. Like if they could just be somewhere else, their lives would be totally different. They could finally be the people they always wanted to be. But to me, a place is just a place. If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.

—Hannah Harrington in Saving June

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

—Aldous Huxley

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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

—E.W. Howe

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

—John Cage

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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

—Rita Mae Brown

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I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

—Howard Dietz

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