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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
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It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you…
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This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.
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Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.
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nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a…
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In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis;…
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Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to…
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Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is…
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So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first…
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Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.
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Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print.…
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Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into…
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Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you…
— Les Claypool
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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
— Rebecca West
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Everything gets old if you do it often enough.
— Ellen Burstyn
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Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.
— Kenny Chesney
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The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.
— David Karp
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I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts…
— David Hilbert
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When everything gets answered, it's fake.
— Sean Penn
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I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe…
— Judi Dench
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As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use…
— Marcel Duchamp
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As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges…
— Roz Chast
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Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
— Cornelia Funke
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True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go…
— Adyashanti
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