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my only complaints are two: that I didn't make myself ready for you sooner in life, that I can't give you better, Love you more. ↗

— Jan Beatty

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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well. ↗

— Eric Weiner

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It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. ↗

— Stephen King

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Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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It's a noir world. Unfair things happen. ↗

— Rob Thomas

#veronica-mars #world #life

Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live! ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#war #life

You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give up. She leaned her head back on the velvet cushions of the swing and said, 'Boq, you know despite myself I think you're a little sweet. You're a little sweet and you're a little charming and you're a little maddening and you're a little habit-forming.' Boq held his breath. But you're little!' she concluded. 'You're a Munchkin, for god's sake!' He kissed her, he kissed her, he kissed her, little by little by little. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

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No matter how convoluted my life got, one thing remained consistent- my hair looked like a baby opossum had taken refuge in it, invited some friends over, and thrown a party. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

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