A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying? ~Dule Hill
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good. I can't believe I'm saying this. ~Jensen Ackles
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~Hugh Jackman
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Hello and hi. Slowly open your eyes. Get up from your bed. Go to the window. The great sun is waiting to say "Good Morning" to you.
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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