"She introduced herself to my parents with one……" — Maureen Johnson
"She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's the approximate level of pressure.)"
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170 Quotes by Maureen Johnson
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English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
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I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.
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Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be…
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But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to…
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Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for…
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Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry…
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A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.
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Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it…
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You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked…
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Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really.…
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My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.
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The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.
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More Approximate Quotes
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the…
— Charles Babbage
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That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and…
— Richard P. Feynman
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There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause…
— Densey Clyne
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Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held…
— John Szarkowski
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The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even…
— Carl Jung
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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking…
— Edward Abbey
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Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute…
— Sandra Boynton
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