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“If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.”
― Dalton Trumbo

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”
― Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China

“Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.”
― George Burns

“The intelligent man, when he pays taxes, certainly does not believe that he is making a prudent and productive investment of his money; on the contrary, he feels that he is being mulcted in an excessive amount for services that, in the main, are useless to him, and that, in substantial part, are downright inimical to him.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

“For what is magic, but passion freed from reason?”
― Nenia Campbell, Evergloom

“Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”
― Catherine Aird

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“The box is only temporary.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Is it the sea you hear in me,
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?

--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
― Jean Kerr

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”
― Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Love is being stupid together.”
― Paul Valery

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
― Paul Valery

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?”
― George Gordon Byron

“The distance between two souls is love.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you've got time to fantasize about a beautiful death, why not live beautifully until the end?”
― Sorachi Hideaki

“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Thank God we can’t tell the future. We’d never get out of bed.”
― Tracy Letts, August: Osage County

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I am here to live out loud.”
― Emila Zola