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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life



Medvedenko: "Why do you always wear black?"



Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?" ~Madame Swetchine



A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella



Out of all the people I've ever met, you're the one who makes me draw those silly little hearts on my papers. ~Author Unknown



Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora. ~Ketzel Levine's talkingplants.com



I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them. ~Gustave Flaubert, letter to wife Louise Colet, 15 August 1846



Success comes in cans, not cant's. ~Author Unknown



A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. ~Evan Esar



A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer. ~Author Unknown



Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. ~Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers were asked to alter a word by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and supply a new definition



There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound. ~Diana Cortes



Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~Norman Cousins



Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer



The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. ~Henry David Thoreau



A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"



What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. ~Friedrich Holderlin



If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ~Charley Reese



Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. ~Steuart Henderson Britt



A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb