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• You were the best thing in my life … I did love you. I do. As much as I’ve ever loved anyone, as much as I can. It feels like a lot – it takes up my whole heart.

  Patricia Gaffney

  Love You, Heart, Feels

  Patricia Gaffney (2000). “The Saving Graces”, Large Print Press

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• The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.

  Machado de Assis

  Book, Writing, Government

  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.11, University of Texas Press

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• For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Believe, Sea

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• I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Benefits, World, Ratios

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.81, Grove Press

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• Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Mean, Achieve

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Shakespeare Wrote for Money”, McSweeneys Books

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• One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.

  Lisi Harrison

  Stories, Relate

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• I'll think of something," he temporized, and Horace nodded wisely, satisfied that Halt would indeed think of something. In Horace's world, that was what Rangers did best, and the best thing a warrior apprentice could do was let the Ranger get on with thinking while a warrior took care of walloping anyone who needed to be walloped along the way. He settled back in the saddle, contented with his lot in life.

  John Flanagan

  Warrior, Thinking, World

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• The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Graduates, University

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Honesty, Gay, Insults You

  Late Night with Conan O'Brien, November 21, 2008.

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• The best things in life aren't things.

  Art Buchwald

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Life, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.80, Routledge

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• I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.

  Peter Cameron

  Would Be, Way, Things To Do

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.102, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Heart, Broken, Scratches

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• Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Next, Littles

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Aug 23, 2014

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• If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

  Lawrence Block

  Lying, Writing, Dark

  Lawrence Block (1985). “Writing the Novel from Plot to Print”, Writers Digest Books

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• I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

  Pete McCarthy

  Drinking, Reading, Sleep

  Pete McCarthy (2014). “McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland”, p.96, Macmillan

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• Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

  William James

  Life, Friendship, Littles

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Summer, Dream, Eye

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Jobs, Want, Ifs

  Nikki Giovanni, “Choices”

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• Tr...ooooo...luv...' Fezzik grabbed onto Inigo in panic and they both pivoted, staring at the man in black, who was silent again. '"True love," he said,' Inigo cried. 'You heard him - true love is what he wants to come back for. That's certainly worthwhile.' 'Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile - true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.

  William Goldman

  Love Is, Men, Black

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• …my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have.

  A. S. Byatt

  Peace, Solitude, Treasure

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• I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

  L. Frank Baum

  Heart, Brain, World

  L. Frank Baum (2012). “The Wizard of Oz”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

  Silas House

  Graduation, Libertarian, Just Being

  Silas House (2010). “Eli the Good”, p.96, Candlewick Press

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• Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.

  Ann Brashares

  Life, Healing, Pieces

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.112, Penguin

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• No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.

  Joyce Maynard

  Remember, Sometimes, Forget

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