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- I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
- Althea Gibson (1927 - 2003)
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Variety is the soul of pleasure.
- Aphra Behn
- She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.
- Marita Bonner
- Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
- Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
- The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
- Heda Bejar
- Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.
- Christina Petrowsky
- I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
- Mary Stewart
- Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
- Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937)
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