Best Twenty Years Qoutes
355 Twenty Years quotes by 305 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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...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
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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
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a…
— Christopher Morley
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I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure…
— Voltaire
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years…
— Will Rogers
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Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel…
— Ian Mcewan
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That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen…
— David Wroblewski
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Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware…
— Malika Oufkir
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I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to…
— Dean Koontz
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Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late…
— Jim Harrison
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Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles...
— Ilona Andrews
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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