If I could always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

Emily Brontë

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB

Truth is always duller than fiction.

Piers Paul Read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read

So why go out on a question mark when you can go out as an exclamation point instead?

From Devil’s in Exile by Chuck Hogan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hogan

You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backwards.

James Thurber

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Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.

Thomas Edison

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“O who am I? Reflections only in the eyes of those who love me.”

Patricia Highsmith

(from her notebook in 1951)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Highsmith

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

Dorothy Parker

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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

W.M. Thackeray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.

Emily Kimbrough

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Kimbrough

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who would rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Caleb_Colton