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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?"No, indeed!"You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged."My dear fellow! I congrat-"To Milverton's housemaid."My dear Holmes!"I wanted information, Watson. Arthur Conan Doyle
Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry's parents' wedding. J. K. Rowling
Poul Anderson quote: "A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose,..."
A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort. Poul Anderson
Alexander Smith quote: "Memory is a mans real possession....in nothing else is he..."
Memory is a mans real possession....in nothing else is he rich....in nothing else is he poor. Alexander Smith
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "I am no man, I am dynamite."
I am no man, I am dynamite. Friedrich Nietzsche
William Shakespeare quote: "One man in his time plays many parts"
One man in his time plays many parts William Shakespeare
Elizabeth Blair of brother Frank: he could “not let even a great man set his small dogs on him without kicking the dog & giving his master some share of the resentment. Doris Kearns Goodwin
Stephen Crane quote: "The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where..."
The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe. Stephen Crane
A great brain and a huge organization have been turnedto the extinction of one man. It is crushing the nut with thetriphammer--an absurd extravagance of energy--but the nut is veryeffectually crushed all the same. Arthur Conan Doyle
A man is fit for neither business nor pleasure, who either cannot, or does not, command and direct his attention to the present object, and, in some degree, banish for that time all other objects from his thoughts. Philip Stanhope
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who views time sequentially and tries to impose a solar calendar upon it. What if other people, both dead and unborn, are living out their lives in the same space we occupy, without our knowledge or consent?"The Glass Rainbow, p. 138 James Lee Burke
I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I give up. Come and get me. Anne Lamott
Eventually, I reached the other side of the chasm and understood the differences between the two men. I no longer hated Daddy: he had been a shitty father and a shitty husband - a man who's made two bad choices based on lust and coveting and then been too weak either to live with them or undo them. But he had not been a rapist. Wally Lamb
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels. Jose Saramago
Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of earth abd his earthy being, and become half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. Milan Kundera

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