“My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.”
-Whitney Houston
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Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 607
“What’s past is prologue.”
- William Shakespeare
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 606
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 605
“There is no reason to fear the wind if your stack of hay is well tied”
- Irish proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 602
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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
- Robert Stevenson for via @Phawaz
“I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now,
I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.”
- Anne Rice
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 600
“Do, What you’re going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.”
- Skitch Henderson
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 598
“A flower falls, even though we love it;
and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.”
- Dogen
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 597
“[Chorus]
This girl’s prepared for war
And as for love
Who knows what it’s good for
Except for crying
Yourself to sleep at night
And for blowing down
Your little heart”
- Bic Runga on “This Girl’s Prepared For War” from Belle.
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 596
“And in the end, the love you take
Is equal to the love you make…”
- The Beatles from “The End”
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 595
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“There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.” – Jean Anouilh
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 594
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“Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say ’cause if you’re not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.”
- Ani DiFranco
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 592
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“Red is obviously such a stimulating color, and it has so many connotations.”
- P.J. Harvey
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 591
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“A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection,
it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you’re past it.”
- Doug Coupland
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 590
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“It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is,
I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.”
- George Burns
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 589
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“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
- Henry Thoreau
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 587
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Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 585
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Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 582
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“Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.”
- Mickey Spillane
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 581
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“Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds,
somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it. There.”
- Barbara Walters
