Best Twenty One Quotes
69 Twenty One quotes by 59 unique authors
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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
— Ian Mcewan
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The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts.…
— Lysander Spooner
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When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it…
— Harry S. Truman
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
— Orson Welles
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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
— Brigham Young
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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
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Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go…
— Roald Dahl
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I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the…
— Haruki Murakami
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I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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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
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[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
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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
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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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They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily…
— Daphne du Maurier
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People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
— Don DeLillo
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Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is…
— Ray Bradbury
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A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all…
— Haruki Murakami
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You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super…
— Haruki Murakami
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I don’t see any police cars.” “They probably had to park a couple blocks over. Anyway, as I was saying, I noticed illegal substances in…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had…
— Jane Austen
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There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes…
— Kevin Hearne
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If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And…
— Ben Aaronovitch
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Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.
— Paulo Coelho
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Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker’s dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren’t in our favor. “Maybe they…
— Ilona Andrews
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I…
— Samuel Johnson
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