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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?: Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.: Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
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You can't change what you've done, so you might as well just take pride in it.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.: Denise Levertov
I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.: Kevin Rose, Diggnation, Our Lip Dub Is Better Than Yours, 2008
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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.: Quentin Crisp
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.: Edwina Currie, in Observer, 1988
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.: Saint Theresa of Jesus
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Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Measure for Measure'
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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We can only learn to love by loving.: Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), O Magazine, February 2004
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