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...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.
Anne Fortier
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Anne Fortier
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?
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For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf shirts, to Umberto, were the garments of men who have no virtues left, not even shame.
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Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.
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Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.
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I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.
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I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.
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Only weak men want women to be weak.
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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
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I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.
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Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
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You owe me nothing, but I want everything.
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By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.
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She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. Once the last chord of the last piece had died out, she had stood up and opened the French doors to the garden outside, perhaps waiting to breathe in the honeysuckle one more time.
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.... death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
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If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?
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And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.
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Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry I was not so sure about the reason part.
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You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
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After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs.
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I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.
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