The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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