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3990 Front quotes by 2820 unique authors
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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
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Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk,"…
— Dean Koontz
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Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me,…
— Jimmy Buffett
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Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?"…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.
— David Sedaris
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I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is…
— Christopher Moore
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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
— Alice Walker
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So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.
— Milan Kundera
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I had a dream about a motorcycle," said Harry, remembering suddenly. "It was flying." Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in front. He turned…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Guess what?' Fitz said. 'I don't know,' Jude said. 'What? Narnie smiled?' He glanced at her for the first time. 'When you guys see a…
— Melina Marchetta
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I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to…
— Margaret Mead
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It seemed to me that the people who made the rules of the road had figured out everything that would help a person drive safely…
— Joan Bauer
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Fresh from a costume fitting, where I had been posing in front of the mirror assuming what I thought was a strong position - arms…
— Helen Mirren
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The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as…
— Carl Sagan
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He shook me, and despite it being one-handed, it made my teeth rattle. “If anything like that ever happens again. You. Leave. Me. Behind. Do…
— Karen Chance
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Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk…
— Rick Riordan
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That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and…
— Obert Skye
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Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.
— James Lee Burke
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They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing,…
— Ray Bradbury
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Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.
— Ray Bradbury
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There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me...
— Knut Hamsun
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These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front…
— E. Lockhart
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When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him…
— Franz Kafka
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Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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