"The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience"
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"O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!"
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"Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation."
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"Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them."
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"Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?"
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"I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision."
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"There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... ."
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"Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on."
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"Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort."
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"The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time."
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"For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself."
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"A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls."
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"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."
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"Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all."
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"When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive."
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"The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's."
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"The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months."
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"What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice."
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"I still have this teddy bear I've had since I was three...and all my boxes, all kinds of boxes. I just won't give them up. It's like if I give them up, I've given in to being a movie star."
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"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."
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