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[Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Disappearing can be quite the coping mechanism for those of us who fear abandonment the very most of all. If we disappear, you have to find us. You're the one who worries. We know where we are, but you can't leave me. I'm in charge and doing the leaving. Not the other way around.: Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, Disappearing Act, 03-06-12
- More quotations on: [Loneliness]
I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- More quotations on: [Men And Women]
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.: James Oppenheim
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If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.: Brock Chisholm
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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Can I ever know you Or you know me?: Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.: Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
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For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.: Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)
- More quotations on: [Enemies] [Peace]
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.: Mary Todd Lincoln (1818 - 1882)
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...: Joan Didion (1934 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004