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“a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you.”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
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“[He] said he didn't think we should be afraid to embrace whimsy. I asked him what he meant by whimsy, and he struggled to define it. He said it's that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.”
― A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
― A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
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