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    Mary Renault
    “True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”
    ― mary renault, Fire from Heaven
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    “Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
    ― Danielle Steel, The Gift
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
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    Sherwood Anderson
    “I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
    ― Sherwood Anderson
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    Javier Marías
    “Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
    ― Javier Marías
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Carl Hiaasen
    “The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”
    ― Carl Hiaasen
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    Emily F. Murphy
    “Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
    ― Emily Murphy
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Erica Jong
    “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: change, courage, fear, life
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    M.C. Beaton
    “How odd that people could be so ugly, not particularly because of appearence, but because of the atmosphere of judgemental bad temper and discontent they carried around with them”
    ― Beaton, M.C.
    tags: wisdom
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    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    ― Giacomo Casanova
    tags: passion, self-destruction
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
    — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

    "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
    — Churchill's response”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'

    That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
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    William Shakespeare
    “CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
    CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.
    CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Othello
    tags: classic-insult, classic-insult-humor, comedy, humor, insult
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    Sophocles
    “To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
    tags: brief, classic-insult, communication, concise, humor, insult, word-choice, writing
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    Rebecca Tope
    “Women like this exploited a person's natural civility, marching through the gaps left by a inability to speak the naked truth.”
    ― Rebecca Tope, A Cotswold Ordeal
    tags: truth-of-life
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    Luigi Pirandello
    “Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
    ― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
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