What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

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Home is where your books are.

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

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Conflict is the soul of literature.

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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Anger is really disappointed hope

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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