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Jodi Picoult quote: "You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says...."
You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. Jodi Picoult
Whatever you call them, they look like someone smashed a fly over the comma,” Ketchum said to Danny, about all the semicolons. “The only writing I do are letters to you and your dad, but I’ve written rather a lot of them, and in all those letters, I don’t believe I’ve ever used as many of those damn things as you use on any one fucking page of this novel.” “They’re called semicolons, Ketchum,” the writer said. John Irving
The autopsy took place in the morning and was the best argument for the buddy system. I had ever seen. Never live alone, I told myself. Before you chane a lightbulb, call someone from the other room and have him watch until you are finished. David Sedaris
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. All have been, or at least all have believed themselves to be, in danger from the pursuit of some one they wished to avoid; and all have been anxious for the attentions of someone they wished to please. Jane Austen
The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. It is not a question of what someone else can do or become which every youth should ask himself, but what can I do? How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood? Orison Swett Marden
Jeanette Winterson quote: "To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead."
To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. Jeanette Winterson
I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers. Daniel Kahneman
His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie. Laurell K. Hamilton
What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable of following if someone else tries to lead them to it, and who can see many moral actions, but not morality itself, and so on? That they only ever entertain beliefs, and do not know any of the things they believe? Plato
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read,..."
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read. Joyce Carol Oates
Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world. Michael Ondaatje
Bret Easton Ellis quote: "The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst..."
The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off. Bret Easton Ellis
Elaine Dundy quote: "That's the story of my life. Someone's behavior strikesme as..."
That's the story of my life. Someone's behavior strikesme as a bit odd and the next thing I know all hell breaks loose. Elaine Dundy
I was on the street. This guy waved to me, and he came up to me and said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' And I said, 'I am. Demetri Martin
She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted. Jodi Picoult

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