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“You are saddened by love’s importance in the emir’s life?”
He paused. “I am frustrated by its importance in all our lives.”
Renee Ahdieh

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“London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.”

Anna Quindlen

 

“From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.”
Tom Ford

 

“A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.”
Samuel Johnson

 

“I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.”
Cassandra Clare

 

“Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.”
John Cleese

 

“One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.”
Jean Rhys

 

“Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who’s with who and did you hear.”
Lauren Oliver

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