"I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry."
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"...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right."
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"I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible."
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"If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008."
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"There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence."
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"This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced."
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"For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and are not corrected by the so-called immune system of democracy, a free press and a free democratic discourse."
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"For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial."
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"This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you have to take off time off for good behavior, which means 20 years in prison."
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"Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great."
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"All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive."
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"Everybody's serious but me."
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"In many cases, we make sleep a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Sleep difficulties can turn into serious medical problems. For the vast majority of us, however, sleep difficulties are a lifestyle problem. Yet we tend to treat all our sleep-related woes the same way: with a pill."
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"As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will be among the victims of the scaleback. And, indeed, many newspapers are drastically reducing their investigative teams."
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"Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy."
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"There is nothing serious in Mortality"
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"The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity."
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"I used to have a little whisky before I went on stage. I realized that could have slowly turned into something a bit more serious. I get hyped up. I also think doing it a lot, you get used to it. You get more confidence. It's confidence building, really."
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"From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord."
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"Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts."
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