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Marilyn Monroe
"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."
Marilyn Monroe
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Suzanne Collins
""Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."
-Peeta Mellark
The hunger Games
Page 253"
Suzanne Collins
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Nick Hornby
"I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn't do wouldn't matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think."
Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down)
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E.L. Doctorow
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader -- not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
E.L. Doctorow
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"Curiosity's not a sin, Harry.
But you should exercise caution."
— Dumbledore
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""he smiled understandingly. it was one of those rare smiles w/ a quality of eternal reassurance in it that faced or seemed to face the whole external world for a second, and then focused in on you w/ an irresistable prejudice in your favor. it understood you as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisly the impression of you that at your best you hoped to convey. in an instant it was gone.""
— F.Scott Fitzgerald - the great gatsby
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Andrew Clements
"When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible to experience an instant sense of freedom and privacy is anywhere you open up a good book and begin to read. When we read silently, we are alone with our own thoughts and one other voice. We can take our time, consider, evaluate, and digest what we read—with no commercial interruptions, no emotional music or special effects manipulation. And in spite of the advances in electronic information exchange, the book is still the most important medium for presenting ideas of substance and value, still the only real home of literature."
Andrew Clements
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"Every now and then, I'm seized with an overwhelming urge to say something like "As Marcel Proust would say.." but of course I have no idea what Marcel Proust would say so I don't even go there. I could do, uh, "As Michael Crichton would say.." but it's not exactly the same you know."
— Lorelai Gilmore
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"guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine"
Fay Weldon
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Philip K. Dick
"I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you."
Philip K. Dick
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Joseph Stalin
"People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
Joseph Stalin
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"Every now and then, I'm seized with an overwhelming urge to say something like "As Marcel Proust would say.." but of course I have no idea what Marcel Proust would say so I don't even go there. I could do, uh, "As Micheal Crichton would say.." but it's not exactly the same you know. "
— Lorelai Gilmore
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"The object is to keep busy being something...as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few."
Richard Nelson Bolles
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"You're not alone, there is more to this I know. You can make it out, you will live to tell."
— You're Not Alone, Saosin
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Emily Dickinson
"Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity."
Emily Dickinson
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"Don't make me come down there!"
— -God
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"It's nice to be important but it's important to be nice."
— Shamik Shah
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Vera Nazarian
"To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone together.

The only time you are not alone is when you forget yourself and reach out in love -- the lines of self blur, and just for a wild, flickering moment you experience the miracle of other.

And now you know the secret."
Vera Nazarian
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Alan Wilson Watts
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. "
Alan Wilson Watts
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"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
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A. Sachs
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"Here you will find marvelous moustaches, which neither pen nor brush could depict. To which the best part of a lifetime has been devoted, objects of long vigils by day and midnight; moustaches on which the most ravishing ointments have been poured, which have been anointed with the most precious pomades and which are the envy of passerby.."
Andrei Bely
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"This will never come again"
Steve Hagen
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"What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again."
Steve Hagen (Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs)
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"As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out."
Steve Hagen
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"Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's."
Steve Hagen
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"For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.
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— Bhagavad Gita
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"If life deals you prunes, make pastries! They are surprisingly delicious, but most won't even take the time to learn this."
Miriam L. Jacobs
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— Poop to be...
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"Pasinating!!!"
Mihir Shah
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"like sucks then u die
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— stephine myner
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"What floor?"
— Would Be Happier if not named
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