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CHARLES V Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded o...
V. VALE Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the...
CHARLES V I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
CHARLES V What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
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DANKA V. My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
CHARLES V To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
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CHARLES V Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
CHARLES V Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball
CHARLES V I came, I saw, God conquered.
CHARLES V To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven
CHARLES V A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
CHARLES V We're now taking some steps to better align our business with the needs and focus of our customers a...
CHARLES V Jesus fuck. I’m sitting right fucking here, Prez. Maybe shelve the porn a little, yeah?
V. THEIA Hope was a weak rebellion not meant for the likes of him.
V. THEIA He got the deviant joke loud and clear, the one about the biggest head case craving the taste of a p...
V. THEIA His own personal siren nightmare. What else could it be when his body only sparked alive when it was...
V. THEIA There was some biblical irony in that somewhere only Mary Magdalene would understand hitting above h...
V. THEIA He felt at peace knowing his little bit of a thing was safe and recovering inside.
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V. THEIA He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.
V. THEIA Hawk was a fucking selfless savior, practically a saint. Where were his wings?
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V. THEIA He wasn’t good. He was a goddamn cruel bastard.
V. THEIA His little bit of a thing was an addiction he shared with no one.
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V. THEIA He watched with his predator eyes.
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KARTHIKEYAN V Divorce is like a death but with intent
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T. V. CARPIO As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
T. V. CARPIO How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. PRITCHETT Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. PRITCHETT If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. NAIPAUL The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ...
V. S. NAIPAUL The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. NAIPAUL I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
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V. S. NAIPAUL It is important not to trust people too much.
V. S. NAIPAUL We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thin...
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V. S. NAIPAUL All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the myste...
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V. S. NAIPAUL The world is always in movement.
V. S. NAIPAUL In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V. S. NAIPAUL Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
V. S. NAIPAUL A cat only has itself.
V. S. NAIPAUL My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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V. E. SCHWAB I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley an...
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V. E. SCHWAB I like to play with tropes.
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V. E. SCHWAB I'm pagan.
V. E. SCHWAB It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out ma...
V. E. SCHWAB It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
V. E. SCHWAB I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. I...
V. E. SCHWAB I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I hav...
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KING GEORGE V Nothing is wasted.
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E. V. LUCAS You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
E. V. LUCAS The art of life is to show your hand.
E. V. LUCAS There are two words for everything.
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E. V. LUCAS There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. LUCAS There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E V LUCAS Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
ANDREW V. MASON Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through ...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, din...
V. S. NAIPAUL Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the star...
C. V. RAMAN Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
JOHN V. POLITIS The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.
MAY V. SMITH I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. NAIPAUL I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...
MARIA V. SNYDER I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...
EUGENE V. DEBS There is always a double meaning in life...
NADEEM V ABDU How is the Empire?
KING GEORGE V It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."
- Valek to Yelena
MARIA V. SNYDER Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just ...
JENNIFER V. CLANCY The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. PRITCHETT There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS