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They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life… — Harper Lee
Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three… — Stephen King
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I… — Orson Scott Card
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. — Charles Dickens
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure… — Joseph Heller
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and… — Barbara Kingsolver
A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six… — Anna Quindlen
He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days… — Chelsea Handler
He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway. — Terry Pratchett
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the… — Dean Koontz
I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers… — Lucille Clifton
England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in… — Kage Baker
When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties. — Dana Stabenow
I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours.… — Meg Cabot
You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No… — Malcolm X
Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed. — Douglas Adams
It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times… — Tom Stoppard
You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox,… — Douglas Adams
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression! — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the act of bringing… — Richard Yates
Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week." Carl Costanza - Hot Six — Janet Evanovich
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees… — William James
I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s… — Gustave Flaubert

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