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Mark Twain quote: "There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it..."
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. Mark Twain
I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, "I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no cause that I embrace. Cecil B. DeMille
Our house is old, and noisy, and full. when we moved into it we had two children and about five thousand books; I expect that when we finally overflow and move out again we will have perhaps twenty children and easily half a million books; we also own assorted beds and tables and chairs and rocking horses and lamps and doll dresses and ship models and paint brushes and literally thousands of socks. Shirley Jackson
I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.(on reading the Cynewulf lines about the star Earendel) J. R. R. Tolkien
So a man will sometimes go through half an hour of mortal terror with a brigand, yet when the knife is at his throat at last, he feels no fear. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Margaret Atwood quote: "Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the..."
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips. Margaret Atwood
If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good as the next fellow, to prove that he could do without being the greatest-end-ever at Missouri, to prove that he was not chicken, and to live up to his mother's championship standards, and if he was going to have some moments left over to savor his delight in the game, he obviously needed considerable practice, so he borrowed keys to the gym and set a schedule for himself that he adhereded to for... John McPhee
Emilie Autumn quote: "Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?"
Why should I wake when I'm half past dead? Emilie Autumn
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see."
Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see. Benjamin Franklin
Michael Chabon quote: " and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect,..."
... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second. Michael Chabon
Well, it’s no use your talking about waking him, said Tweedledum, when you’re only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you’re not real. I am real! said Alice, and began to cry. You won’t make yourself a bit realer by crying, Tweedledee remarked: there’s nothing to cry about. If I wasn’t real, Alice said– half laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous– I shouldn’t be able to cry. I hope you don’t think those are real tears? Tweedledee interrupted in a tone of... Lewis Carroll
Socrates quote: "understanding a question is half an answer"
understanding a question is half an answer Socrates
You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. We can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. But, my pet, we'll never belong to it. That's for other people, not for us. Alexandra Ripley
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages. Christopher Morley
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the..."
He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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