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Quote by Flannery OConnor
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. – Flannery OConnor

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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. – Flannery OConnor

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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody elses. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that theres no truth. – Flannery OConnor

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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. Its perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes weve learned something from yesterday. – John Wayne

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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin

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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. – Lewis Carroll

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One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is four or five big days that change everything. – Riding in Cars with Boys, Beverly Donofrio (book), Morgan Ward (screenplay)

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