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" Get busy living, or get busy dying. "

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" French is the language that turns dirt into romance. "

" Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. "

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" I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. "

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" God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. "

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" I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. "

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" The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. "

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