Secondhand Quotes
48 quotes by 44 authors
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I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a…
— Natasha Bedingfield
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm…
— Hari Kunzru
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Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better…
— Karl Lagerfeld
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I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can…
— Amy Lee
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Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks…
— James Surowiecki
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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
— Mark Twain
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I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very…
— Florence Welch
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I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to…
— Helene Hanff
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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that…
— Toni Morrison
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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around,…
— Lisa Kleypas
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...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising…
— Dave Eggers
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Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really…
— Terry Pratchett
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I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.
— Cornelia Funke
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The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy…
— Jennifer McMahon
Who Wrote These Secondhand Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 48 Secondhand Quotes, led by these top contributors: