"Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins."
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"From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically."
"A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up."
"He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so."
"Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it."
"One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well, I'm now going to have three months where I'm just going to hang out and be with the family"."
"Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it."