Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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