Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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