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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.: Margot Asquith
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.': Maya Angelou (1928 - ), in Daily News
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.: Ice T, The Ice Opinion
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.: Roseanne Barr
Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.: Unknown
Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc, especially if you haven't sold it yet. And the ones that aren't, you don't want in your life anyway.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 22. Nobody cares. Do it for yourself., 08-22-04
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.: Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006
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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.: Robert M. Hamilton
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Mortals believe gods to be omnipotent and ever-knowing. The truth is more slippery; their limitations are multiple, kaleidoscopic, and idiosyncratic.: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow, 2019
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
You don't have to die in order to make a living.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 10-14-05
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