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He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. — Ian Mcewan
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that… — Bill Bryson
And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say… — C.S. Lewis
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get — Anne Tyler
He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer… — Hilary McKay
It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future. — Barbara Kingsolver
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that… — Tom Stoppard
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them. — Sinclair Lewis
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God… — Barbara Kingsolver
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. — Beatrix Potter
Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal,… — Nicholas Sparks
Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always… — Haruki Murakami
It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed. — Ismail KadarÃ©
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning… — Evelyn Waugh
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the… — Jodi Picoult
These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to… — Marilynne Robinson
Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay. — Keith Ablow
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes… — Neil Gaiman
If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt. — Geraldine Brooks
But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite… — Terry Pratchett
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm… — Jonathan Franzen
He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and… — Susanna Clarke
It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code… — Orson Scott Card

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