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- How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different…
- The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It…
- Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river…
- I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.
- It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening…
- Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how…
- Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when…
- I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a…
- The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to…
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