"What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside."
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"There are definitely many adventures on the road with Jessica 6. It sometimes feels like we're in a movie. I was recently kidnapped by 2 taxi drivers in Moscow. They drove me over 2 hours out of town till I started to cry then they drove me 3 more hours finally to my hotel!"
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"I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history."
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"A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society."
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"Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!"
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"When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass."
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"In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it."
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"Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard."
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"The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve."
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"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."
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"... she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy."
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"When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back."
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"But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town."
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"You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves."
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"I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much."
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"Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle."
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"I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?"
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"I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies."
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"Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future."
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"Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town."
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