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JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING I have lost everything. Lost everything.
Everything. - William Herondale
CASSANDRA CLARE We're getting a lot of mail but I don't have a definite feeling about the final number.
GEIR LUNDESTAD I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS Low turnout was a definite setback.
AHMAD NADER NADERY I'll give you a definite maybe.
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FEDERICO OPINION The crater could only be done by a powerful explosive.
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- William Wordsworth,
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WILLIAM FAULKNER When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER