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  • Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
        Edna St. Vincent Millay   Best?
  • I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Deep experience is never peaceful.
        Henry James   Best?
  • Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
        William Dement   Best?
  • I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
        Jean Kerr   Best?
  • A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Character is what you are in the dark.
        Proverb   Best?
  • A closed mind is a good thing to lose.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.
        Mary Anne Radmacher   Best?
  • I feel that we read to learn new things, sure, absolutely, but more often than not, what we really get out of the good books we read is self- recognition. We read and discover stuff about life that we already knew, except that we didn't know we knew it until we read it in a particular book. And this self-recognition, this discovering ourselves in the writings of others can be very exciting, can make us feel a little less isolated inside our own thing and a little more connected to the larger world.
        Richard Price   Best?
  • All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
        Joni Mitchell   Best?
  • Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
        Robin Williams   Best?
  • We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
        Milan Kundera   Best?
  • A good book has no ending.
        R. D. Cumming   Best?
  • But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
        Maya Angelou   Best?
  • The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
        W. E. B. DuBois   Best?
  • There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.
        Paris Hilton   Best?
  • Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Woe be to him that reads but one book.
        Adrienne Gusoff   Best?
  • The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
        H. P. Lovecraft   Best?
  • When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Is this a dagger which I see before me,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
        Michael Flatley   Best?
  • From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
        George Carlin   Best?
  • Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.
        Lemony Snicket   Best?
  • All cats are gray in the dark.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?

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