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Gustave Flaubert quote: "Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange..."
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. Gustave Flaubert
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth. Paula Danziger
Neil Gaiman quote: "The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You..."
The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. Neil Gaiman
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. J. D. Salinger
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. Jorge Luis Borges
Margaret Mitchell quote: "Hardships make or break people."
Hardships make or break people. Margaret Mitchell
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. Robert Louis Stevenson
Michael J. Fox quote: "what other people think of me is not my business."
what other people think of me is not my business. Michael J. Fox
When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless. Chris Colfer
All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. Conan O'Brien
Anne Frank quote: "Because paper has more patience than people."
Because paper has more patience than people. Anne Frank
Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him. J. K. Rowling
I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity. George Carlin
It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners to the quartets of Beethoven, thus achieving, as all masterpieces do, progress if not in the quality of artists, at least in the company of minds, which is largely composed these days of what was missing when the work appeared: people capable of liking it. Marcel Proust
Shinichi Suzuki quote: "It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to..."
It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier. Shinichi Suzuki

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