A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'

Author: Billy Collins

Author: Billy Collins

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The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over

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The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

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The laugh came then, a marvelous honking hoorah so infectious that Dill felt it should be quarantine

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Snowflakes fall from high.Flurries lift and twirl below.The world has turned white.

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Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so f

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Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happ

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Duncan's temper kindled, but it didn't dampen the lust seeping along his nerve endings. He could fla

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All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dati

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He lifted a glass. Ragnor and Catarina did not join him, but Magnus was happy to make the toast on h

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In a democracy government is the God.

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You're not broken. You're perfect. And when you get to get away from these kids, you might finally h

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Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.

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I'm going to get even, I swear I will. Mark my words, I'm a pregnant cranky woman with insomnia. I h

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Sometimes distance was easier than acting, or explaining.

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It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it.

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Oh, I loathe weddings. I loathe sitting down and participating in inane conversations with proud par

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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of the others. I

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

Author: Matthew Modine
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It took so long to find you...and now I don't want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want

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So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life a

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The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation a

Author: Thomas C. Oden
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Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

Author: Jeanette Winterson
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When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pu

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God is the Creator of all things.

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On first impressions, John seemed more cynical and brash than the others, Ringo the most endearing,

Author: Pattie Boyd
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I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

Author: Mayer Hawthorne
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He said he was going to fix everything and I believed him. But I believed him before and again some.

Author: Dominic Riccitello
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Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does no

Author: Sharon Salzberg
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Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it ho

Author: Tim Cook
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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy care enough about yo

Author: Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the te

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Right," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the

Author: Neil Gaiman
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As they seek authenticity, Emerging Evangelicals seek freedom - from loneliness, convention, unwante

Author: James S. Bielo
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I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!

Author: Jerry Scott
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Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps w

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Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

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The stories I tell myself about myself are contexts for what I believe is possible. These stories af

Author: Sharon Weil
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So what are you going to do? Let your future be shaped by the injustices and cruelties of the past,

Author: Ralph E. Vaughan
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Comfortable? Don't be. I believe in those moments where we grow comfortable is where we stop growing

Author: Christy Aldridge
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Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others

Author: Alice Duer Miller
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse

Author: Queen Victoria
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If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matte

Author: Dean Koontz
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Been living on this earth for so long now and still don't know what a happy life feels like. I'm rea

Author: Jonathan Anthony Burkett
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An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsis

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
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People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.

Author: Masashi Kishimoto
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Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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She has no interest in human quarrels, for they are often petty and always pointless.

Author: Ross Turner
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Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.

Author: G.R. Gopinath
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God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!

Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not

Author: Albert Camus
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Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

Author: Karl Barth
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It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorist

Author: Walter Mosley
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The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do' it was ju

Author: Sam Hunt
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Measure your day not by the money you're earning but by the unconditional love that you're giving aw

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How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?

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Never wanna leave my Justice, my home.So I bring her with me, my baby Lonesome.Don't matter, Justice

Author: Kristen Ashley
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Author: Hermann Hesse
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But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Pa

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Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

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If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. A

Author: Charles Bukowski
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Music education was always big for me. Ever since I was a young kid, I always said it was the reason

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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is wha

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Love, too, was just a question of time

Author: Paulo Coelho
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That’s what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks’

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Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to

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But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out.For t

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Do you notice the abused of your society? Take a decision, make plans, strategize, to begin to procl

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We’re always looking, but we never really see.

Author: Milton Glaser
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Love yourself enough to take care of your health of mind, body, and soul as a top priority, then you

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Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone els

Author: Jonathan Tropper
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Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Author: Victor Hugo
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I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your d

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Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.

Author: Anonymous
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Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having

Author: Athol Fugard
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If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

Author: John H. Lienhard
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Like two side to a coin, there are two sides to life: your reason and emotional facets.

Author: Ami Blackwelder
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Love! In the midst of ugliness, you're my beauty.

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Traveling can get kind of lonely sometimes, er… no, not traveling. What is the word? Life. Life can

Author: John Mulaney
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Normal....What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.So what if the majority became wh

Author: Catherine of Genoa
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.

Author: Al Álvarez
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Never pass on an opportunity to say thank you or give recognition for a job well done

Author: Mark W. Boyer
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A positive change in approach improves quality.

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It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetr

Author: Russell Simmons
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I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometim

Author: Maya Angelou
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Excellence is the rocket that carries you to the stratosphere of success.

Author: Mark LaMoure
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Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better.

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Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of soc

Author: Terry Eagleton
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I'm beginning to feel as though everything has happened before, that our story has already been told

Author: Helen Humphreys
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually u

Author: Alice Munro
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An angel is an empty comic book thought bubble. The content has to be filled in by the viewer.

Author: Chris F. Westbury
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...I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate m

Author: Julian Barnes
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The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I

Author: Jeanette Winterson
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Author: Socrates
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Beneath the water, I can know her. She was fierce, uncompromising. When she loved, she loved deeply,

Author: Rachel Cohn
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Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier

Author: Bonaro Overstreet
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Be your OWN celebrity!

Author: Jamie McCall