I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa
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Lauren Oliver
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.
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Norman Maclean
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
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Orson Scott Card
You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
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Chuck Palahniuk
I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are.
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Dee White
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