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Timothy Zahn quote: "I had a plan, all right, ... I was also pretty sure no one on..."
I had a plan, all right, ... I was also pretty sure no one on my list of allies was going to like it. Timothy Zahn
No one has ever loved me. As deeply as you. No one has truly shown me. What love could be like until now: Not pretty or safe or easy. But more than I ever knew. Love within reason -That isn't love. And I've learned that from you.. Stephen Sondheim
The World is pretty much divided between the weak of mind & the strong- between those who can act & those who cannot, & it is the bounden Duty of the Capable to let no opportunity of being useful escape them. Jane Austen
And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted, and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked. Pearl S. Buck
How often would I have the chance to see a pretty girl bathing? I could recall no specific prohibition from the church or the Scriptures, though I knew it was wrong. But maybe it wasn't terribly sinful. John Grisham
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "[From Old Mortality]The woman in the picture. . . was only a..."
[From Old Mortality]The woman in the picture. . . was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times. Katherine Anne Porter
There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes. Alan Moore
You should not be sad," he said, gazing at me with his melancholy, leathery walrus eyes. "It must be the love. But you are young and pretty, you will have time to be sad later." The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all the kinds. This is why they have bidets. "It is criminal, the love, " he said, patting my shoulder. "But none is worse.? Margaret Atwood
In addition to what has been already said of Catherine Morland's personal and mental endowments, when about to be launched into all the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks' residence in Bath, it may be stated, for the reader's more certain information, lest the following pages should otherwise fail of giving any idea of what her character is meant to be; that her heart was affectionate, her disposition cheerful and open, without conceit or affectation of any kind - her manners just... Jane Austen
...we sang in church "Tata Nzolo"! Which means Father in Heaven or Father of Fish Bait depending on just how you sing it, and that pretty well summed up my quandry. Barbara Kingsolver
Elsie de Wolfe quote: "Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if..."
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you. Elsie de Wolfe
You should be proud of her. She cracked the wall, and I never thought I'd live to see it cracked."What are you talking about?" I said. "What wall?"The one you built around you," Jeannie said. "Don't say it wasn't there. It was there. I tried to crack it but I didn't have the confidence, you know? What happened is, it cracked me, but that's okay, I'm working around my crack pretty well. But you were dying behind your wall, and you're lucky to have a daughter who has the guts to crack it. I... Larry McMurtry
Jack Kerouac quote: "Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are..."
Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious. Jack Kerouac
I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans. John Osborne
Jane Austen quote: "To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18..."
To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well Jane Austen

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