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When I was in the streets, I was taught to defend myself. Me and Bo just come from different places.


Ann Wolfe

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GENE WOLFE We have the capabilities to have one of the best teams in recent history.
BEN WOLFE Cyrus is one of the better players in the state. But Tommy's right there.
BEN WOLFE I can see it being a very good teaching tool.
BEN WOLFE I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks...
TOM WOLFE You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
TOM WOLFE Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity...
TOM WOLFE My friend Bill Cannon moved here; I was moving from my studio that had a huge parking lot, and I had...
JAMES WOLFE People don't want other people to be people.
GENE WOLFE We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're...
THOMAS WOLFE I sleep with the drapes open to rise with the sun. I think that's a healthy thing to do because ...
WHITNEY WOLFE When I left Tinder, I had no intention of getting back into the dating industry. What I ultimately w...
WHITNEY WOLFE We're going to skirt a recession,
CHRIS WOLFE You cannot hope to bribe or twist, Thank God! the British journalist But, seeing what the man will d...
HUMBERT WOLFE Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain onl...
THOMAS WOLFE You can't go home again
THOMAS WOLFE We are a little tardy on this one.
DAN WOLFE I've always been interested in all sorts of things. Art, physics, history, philosophy, math -- they'...
DAN WOLFE I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores t...
TOM WOLFE We think the earnings picture shaping up for this quarter is just going to be absolutely stupendous,...
CHRIS WOLFE We think the earnings picture shaping up for this quarter is going to be absolutely stupendous, led ...
CHRIS WOLFE Over the last month, HFTP President Ralph Miller and I have entertained numerous requests for HFTP t...
FRANK WOLFE Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain onl...
THOMAS WOLFE These outstanding officials are a testament to the skill and talent that the LGBT community offers i...
CHUCK WOLFE 'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.
TOM WOLFE How To Kill the Job Culture Before It Kills You: Living a Life of Autonomy in a Wage-Slave Society ....
CLAIRE WOLFE People can't stand up and slam the gay and lesbian community when there's such a wonderful example o...
CHUCK WOLFE Love is born in fire, is planted like a seed Love cannot give you everything, but it gives you what ...
KATE WOLFE Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried.
CHARLES WOLFE