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• I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

  Colm Toibin

  Book, Thinking, Offering

  "Exclusive Interview: Colm Toibin Talks About His New Story Collection". Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Lying, Dark

  The Fellowship of the Ring epigraph (1954)

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• This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the action, so that he would not overlook it. "Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?" he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. "It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor." "What did people do before 1969?" "Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Fire, Two, People

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

  Mark Twain

  Hands, Play, Sound

  Mark Twain (1961). “Twain: Wit and Wisecracks”

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• I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Taken, Brain, Rotten

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Book, Ninety Nine, Quality

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• When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

  Don DeLillo

  Death, Thinking, Years

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Income, Done, Charity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

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• You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Ninety Nine, Firsts, Enough

  Kaye Gibbons (1993). “Charms for the Easy Life”, p.69, Penguin

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• It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

  David Levithan

  Valentine, Usual, Three

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.156, Egmont UK

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• No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pms, Interviews, Saturday

  "The Chronicles of Narnia Vol III: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader".

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• Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy... and no money to buy it with.

  Harper Lee

  Sweet, Morning, Tired

  "Fictional character: Older Scout". To Kill a Mockingbird, www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Children, Father, Grandmother

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

  Douglas Adams

  Dream, Brain, Mind

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Kings, Heart, Missing Him

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.75, Macmillan

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• Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!

  Marisha Pessl

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.432, Penguin UK

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• Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

  Terry Pratchett

  Good Luck, Science, Magic

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• There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Ninety Nine, Law

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• Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

  Rick Moody

  Thinking, Tangled, Arms

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• Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Beautiful, Forgiveness, Sorry

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• A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eight, Would Be, Favors

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• You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Men, Knives

  "American Liberals and the Racism Treadmill" by Coleman Hughes, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 16, 2018.

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