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George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us… — John le Carre
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious… — Frank McCourt
Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight. — Eoin Colfer
Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face.… — William Goldman
This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay… — Betty Smith
If you canâ€™t state your position in eight words, you donâ€™t have a position. — Seth Godin
Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. — Derrick Jensen
A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes… — Lisa Kleypas
I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours.… — Meg Cabot
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a… — Jonathan Stroud
Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension,… — Alfred Bester
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped,… — Harper Lee
A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years… — Gabrielle Zevin
The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread… — Diane Setterfield
If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no… — Franz Kafka
She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway,… — Lauren Groff
So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal… — Jennifer Weiner
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little… — Walker Percy
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging,… — Neil Gaiman
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity… — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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