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I grow more intense as I age.: Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003
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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.: Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
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Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.: Robin Norwood
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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
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As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.: H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), King Solomon's Mines
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.: Hansell B. Duckett
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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.: Kathleen Norris
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.: Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003
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The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.: William Hutton
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.: Vincent Canby, on the Academy Awards
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The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.: Daniel Raeburn, The New Yorker, 05-01-2006
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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