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Paula Poundstone

Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.
 

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Paula Poundstone

Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
 

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Robert Frost

Johnny Depp

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
 

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Johnny Depp
May 19, 2011

Now the whole family can enjoy Enzo!

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"The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash."

Dave Barry

All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears --- of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required."
 

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Dave Barry

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, THE LITTLE PRINCE

It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.
 

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery, THE LITTLE PRINCE
May 17, 2011

Rachel Simon: THE STORY OF BEAUTIFUL GIRL

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In this personal essay, author Rachel Simon discusses the events in her life that inspired her new novel The Story of Beautiful Girl, the latest Bookreporter.com Bets On pick.

Woody Allen

I've often said the only thing standing between me and greatness is me.
 

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Woody Allen
Lily King is the award-winning author of The Pleasing Hour and The English Teacher, which has garnered much praise and critical acclaim. Her third book, Father of the Rain, follows Daley Amory as she watches the destruction of her parents' marriage against the backdrop of the last days of Richard Nixon's presidency.

Rod Serling

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
 

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Rod Serling