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title: "11 Thing Knows Quotes by 11 authors"
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> [“Time is the thing that everyone knows intimately – until you ask them to tell you about It.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/time-is-the-thing-that-everyone-knows-intimately-until-you-ask-them/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-naan/and-any-man-who-knows-a-thing-knows-he-knows-not-a-damn-damn-thing-at/)

[K'naan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-naan/)

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> [“You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredrik-backman/you-re-the-funniest-thing-she-knows-that-s-why-she-always-draws-you/)

[Fredrik Backman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fredrik-backman/)

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> [Ground and pound is my thing, everyone knows that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-volkanovski/ground-and-pound-is-my-thing-everyone-knows-that/)

[Alexander Volkanovski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-volkanovski/)

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> [“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-last-thing-one-knows-when-writing-a-book-is-what-to-put-first/)

[Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/)

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> [Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/only-in-dreams-in-poetry-in-play-do-we-sometimes-arrive-at-what-we/)

[Julio Cortazar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

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> [“The one thing about me that everyone who knows me can substantiate is that literally everything that I think eventually comes out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hale/the-one-thing-about-me-that-everyone-who-knows-me-can-substantiate-is/)

[Jenny Hale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hale/)

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> [“The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/the-more-a-man-looks-at-a-thing-the-less-he-can-see-it-and-the-more-a/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

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> [Deep In Everyone's Soul There Is That One Thing That No One Knows... Sometimes Not Even The Person Them Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/techboss/deep-in-everyone-s-soul-there-is-that-one-thing-that-no-one-knows/)

[TechBoss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/techboss/)

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> [I guess my whole thing has always been that nobody knows you except for yourself and nobody knows your story except for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-cain/i-guess-my-whole-thing-has-always-been-that-nobody-knows-you-except/)

[Mary Cain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-cain/)

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> [“Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leila-sales/don-t-you-ever-want-to-have-just-one-thing-that-no-one-else-knows/)

[Leila Sales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leila-sales/)

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