Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."
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Grants
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Peggy Lee
Singer
"I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant."
Catherine the Great
Empress
"God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"God grant us patience!"
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it."
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"I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant"
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"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant."
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"Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life."
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"Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant."
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"I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something."
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"You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again."
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"Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence."
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"she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day"
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"God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable."
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"You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will."
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"I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest."
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"O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!"
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"There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent."
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"There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours"
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"Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs."
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"Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet."
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"The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it."
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"As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us."
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"Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death."
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"Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in."
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