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Mark Twain quote: "The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no..."

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

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They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future. There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling, and the sound of fabric on fabric and skin on fabric as their limbs slid across each other in this restless, sensuous wrestling. ... They moved closer, deeper and then, for seconds on end, everything stopped. Instead of an ecstatic frenzy, there was stillness. They were stilled not by the astonishing fact of arrival, but by an awed sense of return -... Ian Mcewan
Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now. Suzanne Collins
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It's not an easy thing to be let go. Alice Barrett
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. A. J. Liebling
People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky. Mitch Hedberg
Khalil Gibran quote: "When you love you should not say,?God is in my heart? but..."
When you love you should not say,?God is in my heart? but rather,?I am in the heart of God. Khalil Gibran
Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect! Gore Vidal
PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.. Paulo Coelho
The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America. John Lawson
Kurt Cobain quote: "Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out."
Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out. Kurt Cobain
3 May. Bistritz. —Left Munich at 8:35 P. M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. Bram Stoker
Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression. Paulo Coelho
There must be a language that doesn’t depend on words, the boy thought… He was learning lots of new things. Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren’t really new, but that he had never perceived before. And he hadn’t perceived them because he had become accustomed to them… Paulo Coelho
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If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. George Brett
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising. Adam Brody