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Adam was the only man who, when saying a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.


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KINKY FRIEDMAN Mark Twain.
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J. D. HAYWORTH Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had bee...
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CHRISTINE KEELER In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
TAMRA DAVIS Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of th...
JOYCE CAROL OATES He (Holbrook) said he has one of the first Mark Twain costumes he wore on stage and was saving it un...
LEE WARREN I knew the only thing that would help him was to get a kidney.
DARREN LINDSEY In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan...
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CHARLES DICKENS All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.
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NEIL GAIMAN Even the ugliest person's cellulite is more attractive than the most beautiful supermodel's lower in...
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PATRICIA BRIGGS (The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)
ANNE TYLER When I looked at the scoreboard and he was 2-under through four holes, I knew the only person who ha...
RORY SABBATINI The referee saw what we did, that Mark had made good contact with the ball and the disappointing thi...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER When you find that you are on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
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J.K. ROWLING Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry ha...
J.K. ROWLING I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark ...
JEFF NICHOLS The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to comman...
PAUL BOWLES (Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity P...
MARK TWAIN My hat's off to Mark Martin, ... He almost won this race. It was only the tires that beat him; he ha...
CARL EDWARDS Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness.<...
JIM BUTCHER Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry ...
J.K. ROWLING When he was around, man, you knew he was there. That was tough . . . I miss him a lot.
DALE EARNHARDT JR I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE People were complaining like crazy, saying nobody was working, but we had one man on top and one dow...
DAVE WHITE Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you fee...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I said to the scouts I was standing with that Ryan would play at the highest level. He was like a ba...
ERIC HARRISON Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to ver...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, ...
CICERO He was a prince. There was no hope in saying yes to the boy with the garnet eyes who left me reckles...
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ADAM ANT Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The kids knew him well. Julie said he was a real good father. The kids played with him a lot. They l...
FAITH THORNTON Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I knew that the guy had touched it, and I think he knew that too. I don't know why he was doing that...
ERREK SUHR When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
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FLIP SAUNDERS To paraphrase Mark Twain, our demise is greatly exaggerated.
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GREG BURKE Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
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VAL KILMER A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only t...
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ESTHER WILLIAMS Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so va...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so val...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew it, rig...
LANA DEL REY Vishous screamed.
The only thing that was louder was the
pop as the hip was relocated, as...
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