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“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.”

“To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.”

“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.”

“On New Year's Eve, my dear friend lost his battle with depression . . . Though he wasn't the first friend I've lost to suicide, I sure hope he's the last. I wish I had the chance to go back and tell them what they meant to me. I wish I had the chance to beg them to seek help, to keep fighting. I wish they knew that they were surrounded by countless others who struggle on a daily basis.”

“A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989.”

“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.”

“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.”

“New Year's Day is every man's birthday.”

“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.”

“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.”

“Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.”

“Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”

“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”

“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.”

“All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.”

“For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.”

“Ring out the false, ring in the true.”

“One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.”

“Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.”

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”

“New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”