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Yesteryear

by Caro Claire Burke

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Laurie’s Quotes

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

tags: life, words

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“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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