"My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer."
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"The Yesees said yes to anything That anyone suggested. The Noees said no to everything Unless it was proven and tested. So the Yesees all died of much too much And the Noees all died of fright, But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees All came out all right."
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"Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them."
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"If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war."
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"My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said."
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"Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten."
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"I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me."
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"If someone says, "Katie, you are out of order," over something I've said, or, "Katie, you are wrong," if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war."
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"I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."
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"You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both."
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"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."
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"Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said."
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"I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga."
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"I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be."
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"Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back."
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"It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain."
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"Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar."
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"You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me."
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"There is much to be said for solitude."
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"One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power."
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