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"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."
"Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those changes that would make all the difference."
"Don't be yourself-be someone a little nicer."
"Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head."
"Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough."
"We are all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us manage to remain greedy."
"Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality."
"You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages."
"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
"Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else."
"Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show."
"We hear only half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, believe only half of that, and remember only half of that."
"The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all."
"We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap."
"Despair is anger with no place to go."
"Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why."
"What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven."
"If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate."
"Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable."
"If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream."
"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."
"It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it."
"Anything you lose automatically doubles in value."
"If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious."
"Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain."
"We all dream of being the darling of everybody's darling."
"Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us."
"Groups of girls are pretty, or not; they are seldom mixed."
"If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject."
"Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity and always its result."
"On stage and off, we care what happens to a beautiful woman, whether she can act well or not."
"I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine."
"The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so."
"A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him."
"My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?"
"Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves."
"I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice."
"It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time."
"The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings."
"Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition."
"There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi."
"We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?"
"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair."
"If he suddenly falls in love with someone else, a husband may not start wanting a divorce; but if he suddenly makes a lot of money, he usually will."
"The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone."
"Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it."
"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
"Irrelevant things may happen to you, but once they have happened they all become relevant."
"We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty."
"The time to begin most things is ten years ago."
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