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A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and… — Kurt Vonnegut
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. — Virginia C. Andrews
Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my… — Jane Austen
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to… — Ralph Ellison
She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away,… — Cecelia Ahern
How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to… — Richard Bach
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at… — Isaac Babel
A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing. — Robert Fulghum
In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So… — Abbie Hoffman
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish… — Leo Tolstoy
...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago;… — Virginia Woolf
You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to… — Craig Thompson
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of… — John Gardner
Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first… — Eric Hobsbawm
It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own… — William Shakespeare
What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of… — Scott Turow
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him.… — John Steinbeck
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your… — Mark Haddon
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most… — Virginia Woolf
Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people… — Annie Dillard
Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous,… — Stephen King
Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number... — Junot Diaz
They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each. — C.S. Lewis
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure… — A A Milne

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