January 2010
31 posts
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“If you think back, and replay your year, if it doesn’t bring you tears of...”
– Peter MacNicol, Ally McBeal
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“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of...”
– Ellen Goodman
December 2009
39 posts
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“Maybe I don’t want a Happy New Year, he said. Maybe I want an intense New...”
– Story People
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“May those who love us, love us. And those who don’t love us - may God turn...”
– Brian George, Keeping the Faith
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“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese Proverb
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“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape -...”
– Andrew Wyeth
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“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose...”
– Roald Dahl, The Twits
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“I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”
– Katherine Mansfield
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“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not;...”
– Mark Twain
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“you haven’t been hugged properly. It’s like an emotional Heimlich....”
– Anna Friel, Pushing Daisies
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“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a...”
– Edith Sitwell
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Glenn Howerton: I don't wanna get too bulky.
Kaitlin Olson: Right.
Glenn Howerton: I wanna stay nice and lean and tight. I wanna get that Jesus on the cross look. You know what I mean?
Kaitlin Olson: I see what you're saying. I think that crucifixion must have been really good for your core because...
Glenn Howerton: Oh, absolutely. Jesus had, like, the best abs. He had the right idea. Hey, he knew: no pain, no gain.
Kaitlin Olson: He had good messages.
Glenn Howerton: I'm sure he started that.
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“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright,...”
– F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of...”
– Cate Kennedy, A Pitch Too High For Human
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“her only super powers are that she can walk in heels without wobbling & if...”
– Brian Andreas, Story People
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“When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we...”
– Bono
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“My brother need not be idealised or enlarged in death beyond what he was in...”
– Ted Kennedy, eulogy for brother Robert Kennedy, June 1968
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“I’ve always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish...”
– Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer
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“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted...”
– Muhammad Ali
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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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“There are stars who’s light only reaches the earth long after they have...”
– The Talmud
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“This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.”
– Katherine Mansfield
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“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
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“You keep wearing your heart on your sleeve like that, and you’re gonna...”
– Michelle Williams, Dawson’s Creek
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“He’s only a baby. We don’t know who he is yet, or who he’s going to be. And...”
– Jon Hamm, Mad Men
“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter House Five
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“The Velveteen Rabbit was about how little kids get one toy that they love more...”
– Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
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“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small...”
– Albert Einstein
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“For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for...”
– William Gibson
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“There will come a time, when you believe everything is finished. That will be...”
– Lois L’Amour
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“We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet,...”
– Susan Sarandon, Shall We Dance
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“Remember when you were a kid and your biggest worry was like, if you’d get a...”
– Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy
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“We took back roads, arguing like real live grown-ups over the One True Route,...”
– Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor (via thebronzemedal)
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“You don’t throw away a whole life just because it’s banged up a...”
– Chris Cooper, Seabiscuit
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“Don’t laugh, you’ll miss the sorrow of it.”
– Peter Krause, Six Feet Under
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“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
– Ben Okri
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“Isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”
– Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise
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“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices....”
– Katherine Mansfield