If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. ~Ellen Page
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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