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Haruki Murakami quote: "The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all..."
The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute... Haruki Murakami
Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything. J. K. Rowling
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls! Jane Austen
Jane Austen quote: "When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give..."
When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty. Jane Austen
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "You can't get any movement larger than five people without..."
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot. Kim Stanley Robinson
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself..."
I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor F. Scott Fitzgerald
How far did they fly? Five and a half thousand as the crow. Or: from Indianness to Englishness, an immeasurable distance. Or, notvery far at all, because they rose from one great city, fell to another. The distance between cities is always small; a villager, travelling ahundred miles to town, traverses emptier, darker, more terrifying space. Salman Rushdie
A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times. Randall Jarrell
Tallulah Bankhead quote: "I'll be over at five o'clock to make love. If I'm late, start..."
I'll be over at five o'clock to make love. If I'm late, start without me. Tallulah Bankhead
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums. Hunter S. Thompson
maggie and milly and molly and maywent down to the beach (to play one day)and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, andmilly befriended a stranded starwhose rays five languid fingers wereand molly was chased by a horrible thingwhich raced sideways while blowing bubbles andmay come home with a smooth rounded stoneas small as a world and as big as alone. for whatever we loose (like a you or a me)it is always ourselves we find in the sea. E. E. Cummings
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families. Pythagoras
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind. William Goldman
Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: (1)He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. (2) Hewill win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.(3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughoutall its ranks. (4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to takethe enemy unprepared. (5) He will win who has military capacity andis not interfered with by the sovereign. Sun Tzu
Sorting gets harder as time goes on--it requires a sort of ruthless decisiveness, while indecision results in endless dithering. Five moves, they say, equal a fire. But those who haven't moved may begin to need a fire. [p. 38] Mary Catherine Bateson

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