Stealing Quotes
1148 quotes by 866 authors
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I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only…
— Siri Hustvedt
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I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal…
— Julie Anne Peters
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Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like,…
— Karen Russell
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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody…
— Dorothy Parker
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Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man…
— Shusaku Endo
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I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.
— Stephen King
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The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?" "It's always cubes with you," noted…
— Eoin Colfer
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Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave it a moment's hard thought. "A meat pie,…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old…
— Elizabeth Chandler
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You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who…
— William Saroyan
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Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find…
— Taylor Swift
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All that you touch All that you see All that you taste All you feel. All that you love All that you hate All you…
— Roger Waters
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Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the rules, unless you…
— Mira Grant
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The bathroom door burst open, and Molly came trotting out. The left half of her body had been shaved almost down to the skin. The…
— David Wong
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Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never…
— Garth Stein
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Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins…
— Terry Brooks
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Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.
— Terry Pratchett
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....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from…
— Joanna Russ
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