Littles Quotes
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I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
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It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.
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I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.
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Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
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…and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.
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A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
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I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
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A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness
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Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
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I went on a children's roller coaster once when I was maybe 12-or some age when I was considered a little old to be on a kiddy ride. Absolutely terrified. Thought I was going to die.
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
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Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.
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This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.
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I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.
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No one has ever bought me underwear, and I'm a little bummed about that. Maybe it's not such a big deal any more.
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[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.
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What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality.
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I don't trust a girl that doesn't eat. I find that a little sketchy.
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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.
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It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not content just to read newspapers and go by the Tube Railway, and buy your clothes ready-made, and think nothing can be true unless it is uninteresting.
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I've got the kid. I feel a little more relief that I don't have to just think about myself too much.
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There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.
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Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected
