Mostly Quotes
1463 quotes by 1203 authors
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It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.
— Stephen King
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I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.
— Chuck Klosterman
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And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other…
— Nick Hornby
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Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that…
— Elizabeth Strout
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Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits,…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of…
— Milton Friedman
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There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them…
— Truman Capote
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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You…
— Sara Zarr
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I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares…
— Yann Martel
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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
— Democritus
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Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau…
— James Sallis
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Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with…
— Raymond Chandler
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You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.
— Joe Hill
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You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist.…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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I don’t know how you do it. You aren’t even blond. I mean, maybe a little, but mostly you’re a brunette. I just don’t see…
— Richelle Mead
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The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.
— Neil Gaiman
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.
— J D Salinger
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Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where…
— Gary Shteyngart
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What’s the gun for? (Leta) I would lie and say it’s for bears or snakes, but mostly I use it for trespassers. (Aiden) Wow, Dexter,…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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