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• He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Views, Two

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

  Mark Twain

  Ties, Stupidity, Littles

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.458, Courier Corporation

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• When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.

  Dana Stabenow

  Party, Divorce, Political

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• Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

  Beatrix Potter

  Garden, Names, Once Upon A Time

  The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)

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• I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't... Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles, it's all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  "You Are All Diseased". Book by George Carlin, 1999.

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• The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, Everyday, Three

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.434, St. Martin's Press

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• The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

  Charles Bukowski

  Twelve, Finals, World

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• I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Boys, Brain

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• If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Two, Shadow, Three

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• Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.

  Gary Snyder

  Wall, Fire, Space

  Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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• Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

  Dorothy Parker

  Baby, Looks, Unions

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• Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gun, Lunch, Democracies Have

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• Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)

  James Frey

  Sleep, Three, Afternoon

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• Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath.

  Stephen King

  Sex, Children, Men

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.608, Hachette UK

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• Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.

  Sherman Alexie

  Together, World, Adults

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.173, Random House

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• Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Intelligent, Wheels

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• The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

  Winston Churchill

  Eye, Games, Two

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• In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

  George Orwell

  Philosophy, Gun, Two

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.151, Arcturus Publishing

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• Ripred sighed. 'I suppose so. You and I seem to end up doing everything. Shall we say four members for each delegation?' 'Why not?' Luxa said. 'Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.' Ripred laughed. 'You know, I think you an I are going to get on famously.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Thinking, Needs

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• As I raced out of the office, I could hear Emily rapid-fire dialing four-digit extensions and all but screaming, 'She's on her way-- tell everyone.' It took me only three seconds to wind through the hallways and pass through the fashion department, but I had already heard panicked cries of 'Emily said she's on her way in' and 'Miranda's coming!' and a particularly blood curdling cry of 'She's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

  Lauren Weisberger

  Fashion, Fire, Blood

  Lauren Weisberger (2003). “The Devil Wears Prada”, p.99, Broadway Books

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• Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nineteen, Language, Scream

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• People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

  Terry Pratchett

  Names, People, Legs

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• Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

  Markus Zusak

  Sad, Pain, Thinking

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.211, RH Childrens Books

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• Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Crush, Valentine, Passion

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• Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, War, Nice

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005.

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