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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a… — Pat Conroy
... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so… — John Kennedy Toole
You know," Shane said twenty minutes later, "I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the… — Rachel Caine
We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think… — Muriel Barbery
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not… — Muhammad Yunus
She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside. — Kate Morton
We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments.… — Adam Rex
It’s a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron) Reverse PMS?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere.… — Jerry Spinelli
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with… — Ray Bradbury
That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your… — Terry Pratchett
Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what… — Aldous Huxley
Little brother, I don’t mean to be a downer, but we’re talking about War here. There’s no way to mitigate damages. He won’t let us.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it’s a good thing we’re in the twenty-first century and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went… — Mikhail Bulgakov
There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're… — Gayle Forman
She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back… — Michael Ondaatje
And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare… — Peter S. Beagle
He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is… — Emma Forrest
Stop it. This is serious! (Selena) Serious? Please. I’m standing out here on my twenty-ninth birthday, barefoot and in jeans my mother would burn, holding… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. — Zig Ziglar
Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago.… — Wilhelm Reich
When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a… — Cecelia Ahern
Of all the Hathaway sisters,” Cam said equably, “Beatrix is the one most suited to choose her own husband. I trust her judgment.” Beatrix gave… — Lisa Kleypas
Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What’s the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?” “That would be Antarctica,” Zia said. “A punishment assignment.… — Rick Riordan

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