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  • Harry Mathews There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • John Irving There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • François Rabelais There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
    François Rabelais
    French writer (1483 - 1553)
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  • Bette Davis There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Colin Powell There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Carlos Fuentes There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Bill Bryson There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Alec Baldwin There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Barry Took There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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  • Douglas Adams There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Dean William R. Inge There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • Sir William Temple There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • H.G. Wells There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Bernard Malamud There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • John Fowles There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
    John Fowles
    English novelist (1926 - 2005)
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  • Casey Stengel There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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