“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”
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“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of...”
“You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.”
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“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
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“Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.”
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“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
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“You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!”
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“A dog Is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
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“When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even...”
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“To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
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“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you...”
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“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.”
“She loved mysteries so much, that she became one.”
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“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
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“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. And...”
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
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“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”
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“The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.”
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“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
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“Very few of us are what we seem.”
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“I believe ... I believe that if there was a start to this, then there has to be an end.”
“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
“To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.”
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“He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing...”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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“Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.”
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“I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.”
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“For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.”
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“It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes a...”
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“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
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“We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names...”
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“I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're...”
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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
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“From the moment I saw her I knew this one was worth the broken heart.”
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“***A KEY WORD*** Imagined”
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“The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.”
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“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.”
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“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
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“Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
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“It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.”
“Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.”
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
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“It's a lonely thing, protecting a breakable heart”
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“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
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“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
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“Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.”
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“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”
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“It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find...”
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