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John LeCarre

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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
JOHN LECARRE Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
JOHN LE CARRE You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Grand Lake is a mountain town, so walking down the street is like being at the edge of a forest.
RANDY HAMPTON A gesture, a smile, or just walking down the street is an expression.
DONNIE YEN The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable ...
KARL WIGGINS I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
STEVEN WRIGHT You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.
JOSEPH CONRAD He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY He's hot like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking on the street and get hit by traffic.
RICHELLE MEAD I've never seen somebody that famous, ever, ... More than Robin Williams walking down the street in ...
MATT DAMON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking...
SLOANE CROSLEY I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm...
ANGELINA JOLIE A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
PAT PAULSEN Afro-Americans. Which is but a wedding, however, of two confusions, an arbitrary linking of two unde...
JAMES BALDWIN You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.
BUD SELIG He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one t...
WISE Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.
SEAN PAUL I don't even like walking across that street. This shouldn't have happened.
LAURA FISCHER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
STEPHEN WRIGHT I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
STEVEN WRIGHT You are walking on a street; a bird is singing, do you hear it? No? Then you are missing the life be...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I&#...
ANGELINA JOLIE I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight...
ROCKY MARCIANO Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a litt...
VICTORIA BECKHAM Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE He was walking down the street and suddenly this guy comes out of the clear blue sky and hits him.
CARLTON ANTHONY Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.
ELAYNE BOOSLER You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot
ELAYNE BOOSLER Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the s...
ROBIN WRIGHT The point behind these demonstrations is to make people on the street feel like there's political ac...
ALI FATTAH The point behind these demonstrations is to make people on the street feel like there's political ac...
ALI ABDEL FATTAH She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
OWEN ARTHUR I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
NEIL GAIMAN You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot.
BEAU BRUMMEL I've been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange ...
KEITH ROTHFUS Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you'll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walkin...
STEVE TOLTZ I would like to know what street that is because that's a crazy street,
DAVID VITTER I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his
passion. He must have ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Lori is the perfect example of how you can't tell someone walking down the street has bulimia. She d...
LAUREL GUCCIONE You could go walking down the street and see 30 different people from seven different countries.
MATTHEW WHITE What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight cha...
ROCKY MARCIANO Have you seen the oddest couple in the world, to your eyes, walking down the street? That means ther...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting h...
HARLAND WILLIAMS You can't capture it by watching it on TV, you really can't because you don't see the vastness of it...
AVE BAUDER He's messing with traffic and causing havoc by walking in the street because he could cause an accid...
JIM COLLINS Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c...
JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
JOHN GREEN All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th...
JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, i...
JOHN GREEN It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ...
JOHN GREEN I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up
JOHN GREEN I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus W...
JOHN GREEN I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
JOHN GREEN I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good...
JOHN GREEN Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says,...
JOHN GREEN I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will c...
JOHN GREEN you gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little...
JOHN GREEN I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time ...
JOHN GREEN My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
JOHN GREEN I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I...
JOHN GREEN He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice...
JOHN GREEN

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JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
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JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
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JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
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JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
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JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
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JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
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JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
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JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
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JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
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JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
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JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
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JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
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JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
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JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
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JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
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JOHN LOCKE The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
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JOHN WILLIAMS Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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JOHN VARVATOS Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
JOHN MCAFEE I can never consent to being dictated to.
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JOHN BOLTON There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
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JOHN BOLTON Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
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JOHN BOLTON I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because t...
JOHN BOLTON There is no such thing as the United Nations.
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JOHN BOLTON I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.
JOHN BOLTON Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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JOHN RUSKIN There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.
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JOHN SUNUNU Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
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JOHN LOCKE Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
JOHN LENNON Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
JOHN SCALZI Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
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JOHN BURDETT I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
JOHN LYDON You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one...
JOHN WOODEN I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
JOHN ENSIGN The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in...
JOHN GRIERSON We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If ...
JOHN TYLER Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
JOHN STERLING I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t...
JOHN LEGEND When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and...
JOHN BOYEGA In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit...
JOHN LASSETER A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a g...
JOHN ROOS For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me be...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE