"Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally."
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"Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness."
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"If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy."
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"If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in."
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"Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment."
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"Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark."
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"I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure."
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"Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain."
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"A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours."
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"We only half live when we only half think."
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"It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made."
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"In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through."
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"He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."
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"A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!"
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"I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally."
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"A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he"
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"Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers."
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"Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses."
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"Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line."
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"Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me."
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