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Charles Dickens Novelist
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"Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six."

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James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
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"If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours."

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John Lewis Politician
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"The vast majority of the American people agree with me and many others. You don't simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement. Republicans have had six years to come up with a replacement. They got nothing."

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Rob Brown Author
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"When Depeche Mode put out a single you knew that a week later you could go and buy the 12" and it would have six versions and they were all better."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
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"The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all)."

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand."

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