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What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and… — Jack Vance
The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who… — John Bytheway
One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours… — Agatha Christie
But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse… — Ahdaf Soueif
[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary… — Joan Didion
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived… — John McPhee
Know what? (Wulf) If halflings live past twenty-seven. But then anything is possible. I say in a few months we should pop us some Orville… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to… — Laura Whitcomb
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be… — Alice Hoffman
Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those.… — Susanna Kaysen
They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water.… — T.H. White
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within… — Daniel Quinn
Cursing herself, she said, "I'm going to man up here. I'm going to so be twenty-one. You're not going to believe how tight in the… — J R Ward
Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding… — Mira Grant
I think it's great that they can come in and suck us dry. Remind me to leave my window unlatched tonight. Day. Night. Whatever. Cone… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears? — Janet Fitch
you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay… — David Nicholls
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and… — A. E. Housman
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that… — Gloria Steinem
I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things because I'm afraid… — Suzanne Collins
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from… — Denis Johnson
Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the… — Tim O'Brien

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