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I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.: Anonymous, French slogan
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.: Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 09-27-07
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Happy Death
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.: Joseph de Maistre
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.': Maya Angelou (1928 - ), in Daily News
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.': Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
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Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.: Grenville Kleiser
Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 08-23-11
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.: John le Carre (1931 - ), "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8, 1974
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.: Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.: Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958)
Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999