"The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]"
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"Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence."
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"There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass."
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"A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime."
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"I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars."
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"The first twelve years are the hardest."
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"There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve."
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"What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact.""
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"Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him."
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"A committee is twelve men doing the work of one."
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"If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event."
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"When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be."
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"Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that."
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"Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners."
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