In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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The support in Britain made a big difference. ~Louise Woodward
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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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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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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