Several Quotes
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I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.
— Aravind Adiga
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for…
— Ann Patchett
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Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred…
— Mark Helprin
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed
— Gavrilo Princip
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Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York…
— Terry Brooks
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Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's…
— Bill Sienkiewicz
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Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.
— Benito Mussolini
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that…
— Earl Blumenauer
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Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species…
— James Hansen
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Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and…
— Reverend Malcolm Boyd
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A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.
— Evan Esar
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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to…
— Judith Thurman
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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
— Plato
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the scientific reports. It…
— Steven F. Hayward
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My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often…
— Helen Simonson
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All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been mainlined into my…
— R. U. Sirius
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But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.
— R. J. Anderson
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