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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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quotistEven if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese 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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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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randomA woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again. ~Mara Wilson
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
#quotes #tommy-franks #war
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
#quotes #edith-wharton #hardship
The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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