Marty Rubin Quotes

#1. The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated.

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#2. It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

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#3. What fills the gap created by a loss of faith is not reason but instinct.

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#4. We cling to love's illusions because they're real.

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#5. We are born free, but are taught to obey orders.

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#6. It is time at last for all the gods to be silent.

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#7. The past lives through us. We are its legacy.

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#8. The truest philosophy is the one that raises the most doubts.

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#9. We are important to ourselves and to those who love us. That's enough importance for anyone.

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#10. The sea answers only to the sea.

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#11. What's wrong with people is people. There's no cure for that.

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#12. Culture is a communicable disease.

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#13. Violence has given anger a bad name.

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#14. Death kills you once; worry kills you every day.

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#15. Self-consciousness is hell.

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#16. The weaker the will, the stronger the faith.

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#17. Happiness isn't something one finds, it's something one creates.

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#18. If you don't love the sea, the sun, all the simple pleasures, what sort of life are you going to have?

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#19. Death kills us once; worry kills us every day.

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#20. Politics: private interests masquerading as public concerns.

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#21. We always need new ideas to free us from the old ones.

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#22. The artist is always dancing with death.

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#23. Love unconditionally, but rely only on yourself.

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#24. Ruins are the cathedrals of Time.

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#25. Luck is everything in love, though we hate to admit it.

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#26. We freed ourselves from gods and kings, now we have to free ourselves from ourselves.

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#27. What chance does logic have against a glass of wine and a kiss?

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#28. All lovers meet and love by chance.

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#29. Tyranny begins with the laws of grammar.

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#30. Where the rich are concerned, the law goes begging.

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#31. We are optimists by instinct, pessimists by thought.

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#32. Don't trust the one who stopped believing. Trust the one who never believed.

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#33. The next moment is unknown, even to God.

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#34. A complicated idea is a confused idea.

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#35. The best thing about having money is that you can use it to help someone else.

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#36. With all our words and ideas we only trivialize life.

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#37. The trouble with indifference is that one can never be indifferent enough.

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#38. Nobody knows what they're doing here, so why do so many pretend they do?

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#39. The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?

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#40. When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.

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#41. Do not pursue an abstract perfection.

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#42. Happy people live. Unhappy people tell others how to live.

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#43. We're all on different paths but headed in the same direction.

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#44. No one can give you the answer because there is no answer.

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#45. Who is satisfied, like the trees, with just existing?

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#46. Everyone has the right to play their cards their own way.

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#47. Two kinds of writers. One treats the world as if it were fiction; the other treats fiction as if it were the world.

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#48. I wish all the dead ideas would stay dead.

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#49. What fades, vanishes, decays, dies-that's what one must love.

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#50. Writing is a way of facing life.

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#51. Rain never falls on a cloud.

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#52. Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings.

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#53. Seeing is always an act of courage.

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#54. The pieces of a puzzle aren't together or apart.

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#55. Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.

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#56. Self-deception fools all of the people all of the time.

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#57. A heart that can break is better than no heart at all.

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#58. Even if you're just shouting into a void, self-expression is a healing thing.

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#59. It's hard to disappoint me. Anything is fine.

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#60. Believe only in the thing that actually happens.

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#61. Dead ends are where the real thinking begins.

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#62. If perception were reality, bats could fly through cave walls.

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#63. A long leash is not freedom.

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#64. Things put in the wrong place have found a new place.

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#65. The only truths that last are the truths of the heart.

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#66. The skies give no warning when they fall.

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#67. To go to any extreme is to limit oneself.

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#68. The future is an anachronism.

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#69. Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.

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#70. What we say about ourselves is always a form of fiction.

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#71. Freedom is the kite's response to the wind.

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#72. Never doubt! Never despair! Many will love you, if you let them.

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#73. Bad music is always the loudest.

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#74. When a man dies, his death dies with him.

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#75. Time can't be found, only lost.

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#76. All talk is small talk.

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#77. Delight in your body, in your sensuality. Don't be ashamed of it.

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#78. After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.

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#79. Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

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#80. What good is being a math genius if your life doesn't add up?

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#81. When a head and a wall collide it's never the wall that breaks.

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#82. The real measure of success is how one feels about being alive.

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#83. The artist's duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination.

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#84. You can always count on God to do nothing.

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#85. The landscape looks different from every blade of grass.

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#86. I've seen a man die and a bird die and there was no difference.

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#87. What perversity of mind made suffering a virtue and pleasure a sin?

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#88. No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

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#89. Works of art create their own rules.

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#90. I prefer to drift rather than steer toward some known shore.

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#91. Acting silly is one of the primal pleasures.

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#92. You don't love someone because it's the logical thing to do.

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#93. Pain never apologizes.

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#94. The new is a guest in the house of the old.

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#95. Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind.

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#96. Poetry can change hearts but not the politician's heart.

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#97. Adam named every creature in the garden. And we've been paying for his presumption ever since.

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#98. All clocks break, and what breaks them is Time.

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#99. Tears are our first language and our last.

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#100. Error is the school we learn in.

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