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one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you… — Sara Gruen
Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine… — Harper Lee
He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die. --Natalya Shonski — Christine Feehan
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise… — Khaled Hosseini
The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by… — Ray Bradbury
I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between… — William Shakespeare
You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each… — C.S. Lewis
The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't… — Willa Cather
In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of… — John Grogan
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. — Charles Dickens
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can… — C.S. Lewis
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think… — Marisha Pessl
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further,… — William Shakespeare
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harry was speeding toward the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was going to be sick-he… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers… — Lucille Clifton
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our… — Eudora Welty
We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever. That was the… — Sarah Dessen
Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds.… — Kurt Vonnegut
In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself… — Albert Einstein
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay,… — Mitch Albom
Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating.… — Aldous Huxley
At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do. — Sylvia Plath

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