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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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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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