1. 14 October 2009
    “Once, there was this day… this one day when… everyone realized they needed each other.”
    Katie Holmes, Pieces of April

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  2. 22 September 2009
    “Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”
    Garrison Keillor

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  3. 19 August 2009
    “Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.”
    Harold S. Kushner, Living a Life That Matters

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  4. 11 August 2009
    “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
    Ben Okri

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  5. 17 June 2009
    “There are some who say you should forgive everyone, even the people who have disappointed you immeasurably. There are others who say you should not forgive anyone, and should stomp off in a huff no matter how many times they apologize. Of these two philosophies, the second one is of course much more fun, but it can also grow exhausting to stomp off in a huff every time someone has disappointed you, as everyone disappoints everyone eventually, and one can’t stop off in a huff every minute of the day.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

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  6. 08 June 2009
    “People are so isolated, and so alone, and so suspicious, and so competitive with each other, and so sure that they are about to be conned by their neighbor, or by their mother, or by their sister, or their grandmother. What’s the use of having fifty percent of the world’s wealth, or whatever it is that you have, if you’re going to live this pathetic, terrified life?”
    Arundhati Roy

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  7. 09 February 2009
    “I’m a good person. In most ways. But I’m beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn’t count for anything very much, if your a bad person in one way.”
    Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

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  8. 05 February 2009
    “Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.”
    Mary Tyler Moore

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  9. 14 January 2009
    “My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.”
    Joan Miro

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  10. 02 January 2009
    “People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto (via frecklesmakemestrong)

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