Didn Quotes
1106 quotes by 611 authors
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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the…
— Raymond Chandler
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the…
— A. J. Jacobs
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I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures…
— Anne Rice
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How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there?
— Steven Wright
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He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you…
— Ann Brashares
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I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than…
— Jeanette Winterson
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…though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a considerable…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and…
— Nick Hornby
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Here’s how bizarre the war is that we’re in in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went…
— Jon Stewart
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason…
— William Golding
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Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at…
— Russell Means
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Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn`t bother them at all. The untied…
— Russell Means
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Most aspects of my training didn’t agree with me. There wasn’t as much bossing around as I’d hoped for, and there was way too much…
— Rachel Vincent
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Harry ran upstairs to their dark dormitory. He pulled out the cloak and then his eyes fell on the flute Hagrid had given him for…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part…
— Cormac McCarthy
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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe
— Ellen Hopkins
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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have…
— Ellen Hopkins
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[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of…
— Julian Barnes
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Macon: “It’s true. And if that doesn’t work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really have to.†Halley: “The what?†Macon: “The…
— Sarah Dessen
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He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.
— Julian Barnes
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