Twice Quotes
1668 Twice quotes by 1239 unique authors
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You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.
— Jacques Barzun
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Twice – Once too often.
— Ambrose Bierce
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But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice -- guessed and refused…
— Thomas Pynchon
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And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.
— Terry Goodkind
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The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows.
— Steven Wright
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If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
— Steven Wright
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I had amnesia once or twice.
— Steven Wright
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What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
— Steven Wright
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He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend,…
— Nancy Mitford
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Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you…
— Andy Warhol
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When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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History is the science of what never happens twice.
— Paul Valery
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Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence…
— Sarah Vowell
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Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without…
— Philip Pullman
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He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.
— Jodi Picoult
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Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?
— Virginia Woolf
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Things never happen the same way twice.
— C.S. Lewis
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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
— Julianna Baggott
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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so…
— Ken Kesey
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You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my…
— J R Ward
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That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror…
— Sherman Alexie
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