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    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: humor, talking, writers
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    “The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”
    ― Myles Munroe
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    Julia Child
    “The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
    ― Julia Child
    tags: dieting, diets, eating, food, joy-of-life, steak
    846 likes

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    “Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: food, humor, survival, wit
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    “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
    ― David Mamet, Boston Marriage
    tags: dessert, eating, food, humor, pie, stress
    672 likes

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    Erma Bombeck
    “I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”
    ― Erma Bombeck
    tags: food, humor
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    A.A. Milne
    “What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: character, food, potatoes
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    Raymond Carver
    “I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
    ― Raymond Carver
    tags: heart, human-passion
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
    tags: paris
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: impose, philosophy, science, telephone
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32179 likes

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    Julia Child
    “This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!”
    ― Julia Child, My Life in France
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    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “I am somewhat allergic to explanations that divide men and women into frozen categories and attribute to each sex its characteristic virtues and shortcomings.”
    ― Mario Vargas Llosa
    tags: gender-stereotypes
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: companionship, marriage, silence, talk
    2481 likes

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    Michal Coret
    “Maybe I live in the gates that lead to outbound international flights. Maybe that is home.
    And do I feel more comfortable at the departures or at the arrivals?”
    ― Michal Coret, Becoming What I Might Be
    tags: airport, belonging, home, immigration, poetry, prose
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    Claude Monet
    “I must have flowers, always, and always.”
    ― Claude Monet
    tags: flowers
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    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: love, romance
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    Peter Jackson
    “Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found that it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.”
    ― Peter Jackson
    63 likes



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