Several Quotes
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Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or…
— Salman Rushdie
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Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly.…
— Dave Barry
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When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting…
— Libba Bray
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While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of…
— Michael Pollan
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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is…
— Mark Twain
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...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only…
— Frank O'Hara
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Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had…
— Margaret Atwood
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Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while
— Groucho Marx
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What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several…
— Amin Maalouf
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The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number…
— Bill Bryson
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The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me…
— Isabel Allende
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.
— Anne Rice
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Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case…
— Salvador Dali
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The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing…
— Aldous Huxley
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Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her…
— Shannon Hale
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[She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of…
— Virginia Woolf
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They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the…
— Terry Pratchett
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