"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."
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"I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble."
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"If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the sky and you're missing the sunrises and sunsets and you're missing the fact that bees pollinate all these crops and keep us alive and the way that everything seems to work together. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design."
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"I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark."
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"I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.)"
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"The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows"
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"The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king."
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"That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better."
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"Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister."
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"Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged."
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"If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be."
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"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."
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"It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright."
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"Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane."
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"The brain is a muscle that can move the world."
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"A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh."
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"I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!"
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"Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest."
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"Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one."
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"A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar."
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