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		Happiness is a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
	
	  Kacey Musgraves Kacey Musgraves
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		Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
	
	  Hans Haacke Hans Haacke
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		With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
	
	  Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers
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		In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
	
	  Caitlin Moran Caitlin Moran
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		New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
	
	  Vera Wang Vera Wang
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		It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
	
	  Vincent Canby Vincent Canby
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		How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.
	
	  Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall
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		To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
	
	  Dalai Lama Dalai Lama
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		Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.
	
	  Charles Dickens Charles Dickens
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		There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.
	
	  Edward Whymper Edward Whymper
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		Happiness is a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
	
	  Eric Weiner Eric Weiner