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Edgar Rice Burroughs quote: "In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they..."
In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers. Edgar Rice Burroughs
Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and... Tom Wolfe
Yes, yes, I know what you’re thinking! ‘It’s all right for him, he’s an internationally famous wizard already!’ But when I was twelve, I was just as much of a nobody as you are now. In fact, I’d say I was even more of a nobody! I mean, a few people have heard of you, haven’t they? All that business with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!” He glanced at the lightning scar on Harry’s forehead. “I know, I know — it’s not quite as good as winning Witch Weekly’s Most-Charming-Smile Award five times in a... J. K. Rowling
But who can say why two people become a couple, that small principality of mutual protection and regard? Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. Diane Ackerman
The people are immensely likabl? cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian. The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn't get much better than this. Bill Bryson
I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave. Gloves and umbrellas. Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck Charles Simic
Agatha Christie quote: "Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable."
Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable. Agatha Christie
Elizabeth Taylor quote: "When people say: She's got everything. I've only one answer:..."
When people say: She's got everything. I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow. Elizabeth Taylor
This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research. Neal Stephenson
But the trouble is there aren't any bends in my road. I can see it stretching straight out before me to the sky-line…endless monotony. Oh, does life ever frighten you, Anne, with its blankness…its swarms of cold, uninteresting people? L. M. Montgomery
Penelope Fitzgerald quote: "Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no..."
Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention. Penelope Fitzgerald
It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank
There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger. "But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows. Suzanne Collins
Martin Luther quote: "How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in..."
How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood. Martin Luther
A: Funny about my mother. All my life, from the time I was just a little kid, I thought of her as a sad person. I mean, the way some people are tall or fat or skinny. My father always seemed the stronger one. As if he was a bright color and she was a faded color. I know it sounds crazy. T: Not at all. A: But later, when I learned the truth about our lives, I found she was still sad. But strong, too. Not faded at all. It wasn't sadness so much as fear--the Never Knows. Robert Cormier

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