1. "What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts."
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
2. "Then I said, I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth."
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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Prose and Poetry
4. "There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby."
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Nick Hornby, Slam
5. "Through the mind like an oyster labors on and on, / A grain of sand is all we have"
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Sylvia Plath, Plath: Poems
6. "By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation."
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Quote by Jonathan Edwards
7. "One can go on saying for years that one doesn't listen to gossip, that the absent cannot defend themselves from slander, etc., etc.; but, after all, isn't the provocation of so much gossip an offense in itself?"
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Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March
8. "He decided he’d rather die as a fundamentally decent human being than live as the sort of asshole who’d tear out someone’s liver to get into an escape pod."
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John Scalzi, The Human Division
9. "An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc"
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Quote by Henri Matisse
10. "What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach"
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Lee Child, Killing Floor