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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth."

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Anne Frank Diaries Writer
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"We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think."

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Robert Browning Poet, Playwright
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"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth."

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Heraclitus Philosopher
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"The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth."

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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer
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"What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies."

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?"

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
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"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark."

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