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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.: Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.: Hortense Calisher
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I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
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Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.: William Hale White
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks"
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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The future will erase everything—there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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This book fills a much-needed gap.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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I cannot live without books.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.: Art Buchwald (1925 - 2007)
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.: Jack Benny (1894 - 1974)
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.: Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994), From "Betting on the Muse"
Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Good men must be affectionate men.: Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761)