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Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred. Virginia Woolf
Steve Martin quote: "When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It..."
When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane. Steve Martin
the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't. Leo Tolstoy
They've discovered how to turn excess body fat into gold," he said, in a sudden blur of coherence."You're kidding."Oh yes," he said, "no," he corrected himself, "they have."He rounded on the doubting part of his audience, which was all of it, and so it took a little while to round on it completely."Have you been to California?" he demanded. "Do you know the sort of stuff they do there?"Three members of his audience said they had and that he was talking nonsense."You haven't seen anything,"... Douglas Adams
Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important to me, and that, though you didn't know it, I was very important to you, but it all went for nothing because we only had five miles and I was a stupid idiot at knowing how to say something very important to someone I've only just met and not crash into lorries a the same time, what would you... Douglas Adams
There is no greater blessing that you can have than to stand as a proxy in a great service to those who have gone beyond. And it will be your privilege and your opportunity and your responsibility to live worthy to go to the temple of the Lord and be baptized in behalf of someone else. Gordon B. Hinckley
That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it. Laurell K. Hamilton
James Patterson quote: "Is this a movie?' I heard someone ask. Naw- this is too..."
Is this a movie?' I heard someone ask. Naw- this is too original for Hollywood. They do sequels. James Patterson
Jhumpa Lahiri quote: "Sexy means loving someone you donot know."
Sexy means loving someone you donot know. Jhumpa Lahiri
Michel de Montaigne quote: "It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have..."
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account. Michel de Montaigne
The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up. Terry Prachett
[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage. Nick Hornby
I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else. Fred Rogers
We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth. Bertrand Russell
John Irving quote: "Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run..."
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you John Irving

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