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To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

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They have a certain gaiety to them, a power of invention, they don't care what people think. They have escaped, though what it is they've escaped from isn't clear to us. We think that their bizarre costumes, their verbal tics, are chosen, and that when the time comes we also will be free to choose. "That's what I'm going to be like, Margaret Atwood
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children. John Sergeant Wise
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. Mark Twain
She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her. Nicholas Sparks
Jean Claude Duvalier quote: "In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either..."
In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world. Jean Claude Duvalier
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. James A. Baldwin
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. Christopher Morley
The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them. Taylor Dane
Haruki Murakami quote: "I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading."
I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading. Haruki Murakami
Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats--repeats--repeats--repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true. Mark Twain
David Lee Roth quote: "I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money."
I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. David Lee Roth
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place. Bruce Sterling
If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself...I know you don't believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I'd want to be your knight in shining armor. You've been through so much. I don't want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain. I don't want you to worry about anything. You just wake up in the morning,... Tyler Perry
Franz Kafka quote: "Books are a narcotic."
Books are a narcotic. Franz Kafka
Thomas Merton quote: "Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real."
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. Thomas Merton