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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), (attributed)
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.: William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
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Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.: Maria Schell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.: Eugene S. Wilson
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.: Hesketh Pearson
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.: Margaret Millar
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Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.: Price Cobb
So little time and so little to do.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.: Sam Donaldson (1934 - )
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.: James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.: Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)