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Lady Glossip: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie Wooster: Well, I suppose it depends on who's wife it was, a little gentle… — P.G. Wodehouse
She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities. — Henry James
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very… — Leo Tolstoy
There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know… — Ram Dass
Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I… — Daniel Handler
Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world. — William Faulkner
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. — E. M. Forster
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary… — Agatha Christie
No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a… — Pema Chodron
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually… — George Eliot
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does… — Orson Scott Card
I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot. — Cecily von Ziegesar
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through,… — Nick Hornby
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. — William Faulkner
Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they… — Shane Claiborne
My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it. — Brandon Mull
proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it… — Charlie Brooker
My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It wasn't easy. Reaching for a… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of… — J D Salinger
Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my… — Rick Riordan
Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery… — R A Salvatore
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies… — Jeanette Winterson
A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was… — Gregory Maguire

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