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1742 Thousands quotes by 1342 unique authors
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Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely…
— Terry Pratchett
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Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned close. "Sadna…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon…
— Ray Bradbury
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It was Will who broke the silence. "Very well. You have me alone in the corrider-" "Yes, yes," said Tessa impatiently,"and thousands of women all…
— Cassandra Clare
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He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool…
— Cassandra Clare
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If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of…
— Harry Crews
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Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
— Erin Morgenstern
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The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands…
— Wendell Berry
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But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably…
— Lauren Willig
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But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and…
— Rick Bragg
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There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had…
— T.H. White
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A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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It seemed she was in a cathedral—if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water…
— Laini Taylor
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For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming…
— G I Gurdjieff
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They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few…
— Graham Greene
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Yes! I did [grow up on a Christmas Tree farm], so this is a good season for me. I was too young to help with…
— Taylor Swift
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Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in…
— Jane Goodall
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Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there…
— Linda Hogan
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History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making…
— John Green
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Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all…
— Dale Carnegie
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When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root…
— Unknown Author
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Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek…
— Hermann Hesse
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There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of…
— Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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