Thin Quotes

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True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance… — William Shakespeare
So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common… — Oscar Wilde
The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were… — Marcel Proust
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because youâ€™re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver
I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show — Jack Kerouac
As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone… — Ambrose Bierce
The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen… — Cornelia Funke
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was… — Marcel Proust
I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it… — Ernest Hemingway
The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark… — Susan Cooper
You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped… — Alice Sebold
This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't… — Deb Caletti
I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing cardâ€¦and somehow the… — Joyce Carol Oates
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them… — Margaret Atwood
at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is… — Terry Pratchett
I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure… — Ian Fleming
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say… — Bret Easton Ellis

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