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Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing.… — Isaac Asimov
He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction… — Terry Pratchett
One never quite allows for the moron in our midst. — Agatha Christie
Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the… — Thornton Wilder
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is — Jodi Picoult
The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human… — W. Somerset Maugham
Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low. — Steven Morrissey
I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are… — Muriel Barbery
They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden." He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. "You defy… — Jim Butcher
The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations. — E. M. Forster
Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was… — Kate Morton
Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most… — Hunter S. Thompson
If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course,… — J.M.G. Le ClÃ©zio
In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue… — Anita Diament
I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in… — Jeanette Winterson
I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never… — William S. Burroughs
I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it,… — Laurie Halse Anderson
To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and… — Terry Pratchett
the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want… — Charles Bukowski
Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few… — Sherman Alexie
Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass… — Simon Pegg
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion or inner… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
He blinked a few times, each motion so slow that he was never quite sure if he’d get his eyes open again. He wasn’t wearing… — Julia Quinn

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