The Magic of Words is that they are both Everything and Nothing.

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What makes us men is that we can think logically. What makes us human is that we sometimes choose not to. –Roger Ebert (re. the theme of the movie, Looking for Bobby Fischer)

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. –Oscar Wilde

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Kiss me; It will heal, but it won’t forget. ~Marilyn Manson (Heart Shaped Glasses)

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I am shinier than you. Therefore I must hit you with stuff. ~Goddess Alexandra

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Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell. ~Erica Jong

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What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit, “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” ~The Velveteen Rabbit

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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. ~Robertson Davies

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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~Ernest Gaines

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Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. ~Wu Li

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Be nice to a man and he’s as good as gone. Cater to him, run after him, spill a few tears over him at the breakfast table, call him “Dearie” and you’ll have him falling into the arms of the first vamp who throws him a red rose and a cruel word now and then, when she thinks of it. ~Nita Naldi

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Definition of insantity: Continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results.

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Tell me about yourself–your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. ~Peter Arno

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All great truths begin as blasphemies. ~-George Bernard Shaw

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I have the right to love many people at once and to change my prince often. ~Anais Nin

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spritual beings having a human experience. ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The thing that scares me the most about wrestling fans is that they can vote and they can breed. ~Bobby “The Brain” Heenan

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Lead me not into temptation: I can find the way myself. ~Rita Mae Brown

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He who speaks the truth gets chased out of twelve villages.

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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do. ~William Blake

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Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage. ~Anais Nin

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Life is a joke. It just matters how well you tell it. ~Andrew Maxfield

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It ain’t what you’re called; it’s what you answer to. ~Tyler Perry (As Madea)

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. ~D. H. Lawrence