"One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke."

-- Mark Twain

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“I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”
“If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.”
“Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.”

Source : "The Confession". Translated by John Skinner, www.ccel.org.
“There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.”

Source : "7 Truths Women Have To Learn The Hard Way" by Joan Wickersham, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2013.
“I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.”
“Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.”
“Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.”

Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”
“Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.”

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