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“Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.”

“it's colder than hell (yes) but
the blankets are thin,
and the pulled-down shades
are as full of holes as love is.”

“We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.”

“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”

“There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.”

“Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it…”

“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”

“Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.”

“It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.”

“What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it”

“You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)”

“It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.”

“Expressing your feelings constantly is like pleading. It comes across as needy rather than dignified.”

“Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.”

“Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.”

“Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.”

“A reverent agnosticism can be on occasion a better evangelism than a religion which knows all the answers.”

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”

“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”