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Life's too short to waste it on someone you can't trust. You should be able to depend on the man you love not to lie to you or cheat on you. If you have that as a base, you can work on the other stuff.
Linda Howard
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When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.
Gene Stratton-Porter
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Energy in itself is a sort of redemption. No wonder we admire Satan. But if the Devil were listless, if he were a pale man in his underwear who watched television by day behind closed venetian blinds - oh if that were the devil I would fear him.
Edmund White
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Take risks... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.
Jim Lehrer
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Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?
Sena Jeter Naslund
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Stupidity makes you dangerous-to yourself and everyone around you.
Jennifer Lee Carrell
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Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the only real treasure any human can hope to hold always.
Gary Jennings
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Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at something, but rather who embraces lowliness of heart. Laying down one's rights- meekness- is a blessed virtue, one that must surely come straight from the Throne of Grace.
Beverly Lewis
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Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world...
Nnedi Okorafor
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Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head, and, like an egg, you allow yourself to topple onto your side, your legs still pulled hard against your torso. You lie like that a long while, watching the chrome shell of the tape measure sparkle until the sun moves.
Chris Bohjalian
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What keeps us from being monsters are the great artists who teach us to love.
Ken Kesey
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How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.
Nelson DeMille
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Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.
Kyra Davis
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It's like someone who prays every night saying God's a good listener. Just because you're talking to us doesn't mean we're listening. With me and God, you never really know.
Paul Neilan
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The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.
Susan Choi
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There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.
Donald Antrim
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I Could Never Have Sex With Any Man Who Has So Little Regard For My Husband.
Dan Greenburg
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The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above my knee ready to shake me if I fell asleep. He shook hard and resorted to pinching periodically.
Megan Whalen Turner
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If he desired to know about automobiles, he would, without question, study diligently about automobiles. If his wife desired to be a gourmet cook, she'd certainly study the art of cooking, perhaps even attending a cooking class. Yet, it never seems as obvious to him that if he wants to live in love, he must spend at least as much time as the auto mechanic or the gourmet in studying love.
Leo Buscaglia
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While beer brings gladness, don't forget That water only makes you wet!
Harry Leon Wilson
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The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.
Susan Cheever
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If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?
Neil S. Plakcy
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There is no such thing as art for art's sake. All art is propaganda, although there is much propaganda that is not art.
John Oliver Killens
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Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.
Caitlin Kittredge
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I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me.
Sherwood Anderson
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