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Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very… — Norton Juster
I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been. — Robert Frost
look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know,… — Bob Dylan
Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would. — Langston Hughes
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin. — Voltaire
Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice… — Lewis Carroll
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. — Henry Ford
Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’… — Patrick O'Brian
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else,… — Kurt Vonnegut
It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all… — Stephen King
Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his… — Lynne Truss
Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate… — Garrison Keillor
She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer. — Kurt Vonnegut
If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That… — Richard Brautigan
He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such… — Lewis Carroll
Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological… — Dan Simmons
a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned… — Jose Saramago
D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do… — Diana Gabaldon
How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody… — Toni Morrison
She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked… — Albert Camus
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Did you know that wasn’t me, the other Max?” I asked. “Yeah.” “When?” “Right away.” “How?” I persisted. “We look identical. She even had identical… — James Patterson

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