E.A. Bucchianeri Quotes: 19

• So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

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• Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.

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• An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

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• Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.

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• ... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.

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• Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,

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• Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

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• Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

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• It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

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• While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn’t sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn’t such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all.

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• Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...

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• It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

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• There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

• ... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

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• Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it's something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.

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• You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

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• To be, or not to be: what a question!

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• We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

• I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?

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