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Julie James Author
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"Don't get me wrong. I love a Denver omelette as much as the next girl. But I'm curious whether that’s your thing, or if you try to change up the routine depending on the specific woman. You know… like, green pepper because I have green eyes, ham because I’m so funny, and onions for all the tears you’ll shed after I leave."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it."

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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
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"I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly."

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"My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality."

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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!"

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
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"Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure."

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Charles Dickens Novelist
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"The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves."

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest."

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