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Dinner will not be perfect, but I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it. Emily Giffin
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were-"I don't understand that first one yet," Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. "Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images confuse me so - is this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we're on the verge of something just terribly important. William Goldman
Edna St. Vincent Millay quote: "One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl,..."
One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad ! Edna St. Vincent Millay
All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return. Jodi Picoult
Roddy the assistant manager lived in the theater. He'd emptied out one of the supply closets. He'd installed an inflatable mattress, a Shower Anywhere portable shower, and a wee television. He slept amid the powdered-butter fumes and empty drink-syrup tanks. He had grub-white skin and Goth circles under his eyes that, unlike those of Goths, came from really, truly existing half in the world of the dead. He smelled like carpeting, Scotch tape, and steak sauce. He was almost forty but had... Patton Oswalt
People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing. James Cameron
When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it,... Lewis Carroll
Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing..."
if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking. Alfred Lord Tennyson
There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous. Cormac McCarthy
Charles M. Schulz quote: "I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I..."
I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities! Charles M. Schulz
But I'm three times your age or more and my brain is worn out and full up. I don't have much room to tuck new things square inside; they just cling to the outside for a while and drop off. Orson Scott Card
On the first page of our story. The future seemed so bright. Then this thing turned out so evil. I don't know why I'm still surprised. Even angels have their wicked schemes. And you take that to new extremes. But you'll always be my hero. Even though you've lost your mind Rihanna
How is the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?"Well, I'm a lousy carpenter, I can't nail straight, I can't saw straight and I always split the wood... I'm nervous, I lack confidence, I'm stupid, I have poor taste and absolutely no sense of design... So, all things considered, it's coming along okay! Charles M. Schulz
Charles Darwin quote: "Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at..."
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive. Charles Darwin
If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.) Anne Lamott

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