Lucas Scott quotes from One Tree Hill

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Tennessee Williams once wrote: We all live in a house of fire. No fire department to call. No way out. Just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns down the house...with us trapped, locked in it.

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[voiceover] Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "Live each season as it passes. Breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, but resign yourself to the influences of each."

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[voiceover] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: 'All are architects of fate... living in these walls of time.'

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: 'All are architects of fate... so look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.'

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[voiceover] Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, 'There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding.

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[to Rachel] You know if I ever met the devil, I figured she be hot and holding a basketball.

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[voiceover] Blaise Pascal once said: "The heart has reasons that reason cannot know."

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[voiceover] Robert Louis Stevenson once said, "You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

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Ida Scott Taylor once wrote: Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone. And do not trouble about the future for it is yet to come. Live in the present and make it so beautiful, that it will be worth remembering.

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H.L. Mencken wrote: 'Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands,hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.'

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[to Karen] If you're always looking for reasons not to be with somebody, well you'll always find them, and I guess at some point you should let go and give your heart what it deserves.

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Most of our lives are a series of images. They pass us by like towns on the highway. But sometimes, a moment stuns us as it happens, and we know that this instant is more than just a fleeting image. We know that this moment, every part of it, will live on forever.

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[voiceover] Does this darkness have a name? This cruelty, this hatred? How did it find us? Did it steal into our lives or did we seek it out and embrace it? What happened to us, that we now send our children out into the world like we send young men to war, hoping for their safe return but knowing that some will be lost along the way? When did we lose our way? Consumed by the shadows, swallowed whole by the darkness. Does this darkness have a name? Is it your name?

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[voiceover] At this moment there are six billion, five hundred and two million, eight hundred and sixty seven thousand, one hundred and twenty people in the world, give or take a few and sometimes all you need is one. For better or for worse.

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[voiceover] William Shakespeare wrote: "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. It is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken. Love alters not with time's brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom."