Quotes with two-time

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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Paul Auster The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.
    Source:  (2005)
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Jean Rostand The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Tom Robbins The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Archibald Macleish The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • William Blake The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
    Source: Proverbs of hell
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Lord George Byron The busy have no time for tears.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Billy Herman The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.
    Billy Herman
     
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  • Alexandre Dumas père The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Anna Quindlen The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Burn Gorman The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • A. P. Herbert The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Alan Patrick Herbert The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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  • Buffalo Bill The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Anna Lindh The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Victor Hugo The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Barry White The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • A. P. Herbert The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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