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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), (attributed)
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.: Eve Babitz
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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The talent should speak for itself.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.: Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.: Martin Mull (1943 - )
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.: Edith Sodergran
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
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There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.: Doctor Who
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.: Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.: Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), 'Black Power: A Form of Godly Power,' 1967
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
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