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Amelie

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Amelie’s Quotes

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
― Jean Luc Godard

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“If you’re going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

tags: act, defiance

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“..the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

tags: adventure, life

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“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

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