Usual Quotes
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I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
Louise Brooks
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Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!
Joanne Rowling
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The saint, we are told,
once lived a life of sin -
nothing spectacular, of course,
just the usual things.
Nissim Ezekiel
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How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.
Betty Smith
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As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.
Alexandru C. Cuza
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Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.
Tacitus
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As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy)
J. D. Salinger
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Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?
E. T. A. Hoffmann
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Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.
Dainin Katagiri
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In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez