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“Garlic is the catsup of intellectuals.”
― John Milner

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

“The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

“In the end, we'll all become stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot