"When children stand quiet, they have done some ill."
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"Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?"
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"Greenspan wants to go out quietly."
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"Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my breath to make sure I could hear him breathing. I suppose I could have used my magic on him, but this was a lot more satisfying."
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"The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie."
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"You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I'd be shooting myself in the head if I were you."
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"Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that."
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"For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her."
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"Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor."
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"Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense."
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"...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended."
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"What can I say? I’m a sucker for the shy, quiet types."
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"I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave"
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"I try to keep that quiet unless it is asked but yeah, I have a girlfriend and she is a great girl"
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"Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost."
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"I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it."
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"But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell."
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