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“I understand you're a common street thief?"

Peter bristled. "Hardly a common one.”
― Julie Berry, The Amaranth Enchantment

“You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!”
― Lauren Myracle, ttfn

“He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons

“I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the next great American novel. And I’d love nothing more than to drink it.”
― Jarod Kintz, I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

“Love is the absence of judgment.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
― Walt Disney Company, Mulan

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
― Mark Twain

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon

“If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“One does silly things when one is twelve.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Just remember, we're all in this alone.”
― Lily Tomlin

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

“Alas! Earwax!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“It's common sense: when you move in, you try to learn the neighborhood.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“I am sitting under a sycamore by Tinker Creek. I am really here, alive on the intricate earth under trees. But under me, directly under the weight of my body on the grass, are other creatures, just as real, for whom also this moment, this tree, is “it”… in the top inch of soil, biologists found “an average of 1,356 living creatures in each square foot… I might as well include these creatures in this moment, as best as I can. My ignoring them won’t strip them of their reality, and admitting them, one by one, into my consciousness might heighten mine, might add their dim awareness to my human consciousness, such as it is, and set up a buzz, a vibration…Hasidism has a tradition that one of man’s purposes is to assist God in the work of “hallowing” the things of Creation. By a tremendous heave of the spirit, the devout man frees the divine sparks trapped in the mute things of time; he uplifts the forms and moments of creation, bearing them aloft into the rare air and hallowing fire in which all clays must shatter and burst.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek