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191 Seventeen quotes by 166 unique authors

After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings,… — Jerry Saltz
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris
I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. — Shirley Temple
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. — Ray Bradbury
Only the Dead stay seventeen forever. — Haruki Murakami
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen… — Jane Austen
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a… — Anna Akhmatova
I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a… — Shirley Jackson
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. — Arthur C. Clarke
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen… — Steve Martin
I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders,… — Francesca Lia Block
I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not… — Roberto Bolano
The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion… — Michael Pollan
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
She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief broken life came… — Ursula K. Le Guin
By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and… — Richelle Mead
I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter… — Witold Gombrowicz
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood… — Jodi Picoult
YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,'… — Adam Rex
She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be… — William Faulkner
Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to… — Yukio Mishima
Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it… — Craig Ferguson
They’re ogling you, dude. Talking about your assets and the fact that you’re nauseatingly ripped, which I would have been had I not bit the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it. — Nicholas Sparks

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