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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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Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

—Jules Renard

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The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there’s nothing anyone can do or say. It’s broken.

—Gabrielle Zevin in In the Age of Love and Chocolate

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There are as many opinions as there are experts.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

—Rupert Brooke

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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

—Woody Allen

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Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

—Jeffrey Eugenides in Middlesex

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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

—Robert A. Heinlein

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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

—W. C. Fields

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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

—Bertrand Russell

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That life … that she had complained against, had murmured at, had raged at and defied — nonetheless she had loved it so, joyed in it so, both in good days and evil, that not one day had there been when it would not have seemed hard to give it back to God, nor one grief that she could have forgone without regret.

—Sigrid Undsetfs

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One of Vladimir de Pachmann's favorite tricks before a recital was to play about with the piano stool, adjusting and readjusting it, until the audience became desperate. Then he would rush into the wings to fetch a large book, place it on the seat, and try that. He would indicate that all was still not satisfactory and would tear one page from the book and try again.

—Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

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The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances; to choose one's own way.

—Viktor Frankl

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If you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.

—J. P. Donleavy

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