"Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending."
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"You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time."
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"Even if you meet the perfect person, it ain’t gonna be at the perfect time. You’re married, they’re single. That’s right. You’re Jewish, they’re Palestinian. You’re a Mexican, they’re a raccoon. You’re a black woman, he’s a black man."
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"Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect."
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"I believe in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life."
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"All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."
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"Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker"
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"A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop."
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"No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect."
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"A good imitation is the most perfect originality"
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"But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be."
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"The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted; whereas the life they really want is precisely a compound of all those thwarting circumstances."
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"There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair."
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"They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle."
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"The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found."
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"I slept in Uday Hussein's bed - that was just so strange. Went to Saddam's palace, was in a mortar attack - crazy stuff. And like three days later you're back in traffic on Sunset Boulevard. It's all kind of behind you, which is kind of perfect for a guy like me because I can take that and turn it into quite the tale."
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"I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos."
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"We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel."
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"God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man."
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"Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit."
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