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Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. ~George Carlin
The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men. ~Lupe Velez
In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced. ~Robert Sexton
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had.... ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. ~Doug Larson
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. ~Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. ~William Dean Howells
I don't have to like Bush to love America. ~Author Unknown
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. ~Edward H. Harriman
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. ~Anne Gibbons
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. ~Soren Kierkegaard
Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ~Mark Twain
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. ~Henry Ward Beecher
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. ~H.L. Mencken
Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me." ~Louise Bernikow
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery
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