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I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War… — Colm Toibin
Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There… — Robert A. Heinlein
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in… — David Sedaris
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I… — Robert A. Heinlein
I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or… — W. Somerset Maugham
I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the… — Tom Stoppard
When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she… — H.G. Wells
For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or… — Geoffrey Chaucer
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and… — Peter Matthiessen
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.… — Neal Stephenson
The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do?… — Georges Perec
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes… — John Irving
Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty… — James M. Barrie
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two. — Dashiell Hammett
Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot,… — Carl Hiaasen
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There… — Virginia Woolf
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes,… — Erica Jong
Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want… — Nick Hornby
Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl… — P.D. James
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. — Haruki Murakami
That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact… — Joan Didion
I shook so that it was some time before I realized that he was shaking too, and for the same reason. I don't know how… — Diana Gabaldon
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping… — Doris Lessing

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