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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#back #come #course #fact #i

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride? ↗

— Joan Collins

#fault #honestly #must #pride #symbol

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much. ↗

— Joan Collins

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When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course. ↗

— Joan Collins

#algebra #always #arithmetic #best #course

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#around #bores #feet #fools #genius

Such a gift might be easily taken back again. ↗

— Veronica Franco

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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#charming #depths #heads #how #lose

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bitterest #closet #courage #dare #enemy

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#country #end #few #few things #many

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think. ↗

— Penelope Fitzgerald

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