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A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.: Junot Diaz, O Magazine, November 2009
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
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I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
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Trust one who has gone through it.: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), The Aeneid
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.: Thich Nhat Hanh
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.: Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.: Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004)
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Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.: Margaret Atwood (1939 - ), Cat's Eye, 1988
Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome.: Marion Parker
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.: John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.: Bill Vaughan
I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.: Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912), declining to make a speech in 1908
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Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.: Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.: Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
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Think of life as a giant, fat cat you're in charge of. Sometimes you can control it, but other times, it's going to do what it wants and you have to roll with it. And sometimes you can do everything - everything you're s'posed to do- and it'll still shred all the things you hold dear... The only thing you can really do with life is rub its belly and prepare for the worst.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-07-2011
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)