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For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever… — Herman Melville
The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence. — David Sedaris
if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete. — Charles Bukowski
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life… — Philip Pullman
Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and said in unison,… — Ally Carter
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. — Umberto Eco
How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every… — Jodi Picoult
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never. — Alexandre Dumas
All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I… — Carolyn Parkhurst
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood… — T.E. Lawrence
How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find… — Anna Quindlen
One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so… — Shel Silverstein
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the… — Marya Hornbacher
She said, "As long as we're with each other--" "We know we're in exactly the right place," he finished. — Jean Ferris
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it,… — Louisa May Alcott
Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. — Erma Bombeck
A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six… — Anna Quindlen
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to… — Madeleine L'Engle
But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. — George Orwell
Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts? — Steven Wright
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about… — Richard P. Feynman
They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot… — Shannon Hale
Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world… — Neil Gaiman

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