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"Life is too big for small dreams."

"Life is miraculous and love is the miracle."

"Life is not waiting for you. This moment is your life, so love it, live it, and enjoy it."

"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!"

"Life is not measured by the money we earn but by the love that we give away."

"Life is what you think about it."

"If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life."

"Life is so transient, finite, and fragile that there is no time to hate anyone."

"Life is not worth living if you forget to love."

"Life is so interesting that sometimes it can make you bored."
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"But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep."

"These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency."

"Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word 'undone'. These women could not be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose."

"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."

"I wasn't discriminating in my reading, and I'm still not. I read then primarily to be entertained, as I do now. And I'm not saying that apologetically: I feel that if you remove the initial gut response from reading - the delight or excitement or simply the enjoyment of being told a story - and try to concentrate on the meaning or the shape of the "message" first, you might as well give up, it's too much like all work and no play."

"Also I could hear Amanda's voice: Why are you being so weak? Love's never a fair trade. So Jimmy's tired of you, so what, there's guys all over the place like germs, and you can pick them like flowers and toss them away when they're wilted. But you have to act like you're having a spectacular time and every day's a party."

"The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history."

"Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time."
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