Top 100 Would'a Quotes

#1. You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand.

Mark Miller

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#2. Dear Mr. Gibbon. Sorry I was absent. Here is some salted food. Please grade it the way you would a jenti piece of beef jerky.

Douglas Rees

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#3. How long would a child last in this environment that is depicted in your paintings? It seems the child would need a Technicolor camouflage to survive even an hour.

Annie Owens

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#4. What else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love? ...

John Geddes

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#5. I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

Yotam Ottolenghi

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#6. To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.

Earl G. Graves, Sr.

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#7. Bellona and Augustus, blood enemies, both watch me as you would a snake. I killed one of their sons and embarrassed the other's. I do believe this may become awkward.

Pierce Brown

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#8. One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? she wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?

Sarah Mayberry

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#9. No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that they would a case where the results of their decision would be less important.

Lysander Spooner

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#10. Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.

Rob Lowe

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#11. Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

Orlando Bloom

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#12. A good friend is worth pursuing ... but why would a good friend be running away?

Ashleigh Brilliant

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#13. Failure is your only enemy. The only way up is to never look down. We succeed because we believe. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Katie McGarry

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#14. I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#15. Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

Francois Rabelais

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#16. I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Alison Krauss

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#17. She will never make a good submissive. She's too dainty, and fucking easily bruised. Don't you think I've considered it? She's a trophy wife. I keep her like I would a bloody porcelain doll. Pretty to look at, and great for the portfolio that's all she will ever be good for.

Sai Marie Johnson

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#18. What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought the terror of sincerity comes from the part of the shadows that connect me to the world and to the creating unconscious of the world. Today is a night with many stars in the sky. It stopped raining.

Clarice Lispector

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#19. In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.

Chris Diamantopoulos

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#20. 'A guitar would work.' But then again so would a flute. A horn. A banjo. A tambourine. A trombone. The drums. When you're mixing music and love, there really is no bad combination." -Elvis Ruby

Nan Marino

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#21. Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

Julius Caesar

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#22. No man prefers to sleep two in a bed. In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don't know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.

Herman Melville

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#23. I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.

Dan Levitan

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#24. So what would happen if I broke in? Would a wart appear on my nose? Would a she-devil manifest in a swirl of black smoke to drag me down to hell? Would Lady Gaga apparate and give me a make-over?

J.R. Rain

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#25. When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.

Janine Di Giovanni

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#26. Living the focused life is not about trying to feel happy all the time ... rather, it's about treating your mind as you would a private garden and being as careful as possible about what you introduce and allow to grow there.

Winifred Gallagher

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#27. Whatever these futilities of mine may be, I have no intention of hiding them any more than I would a bald and grizzled portrait of myself. These are my humours, my opinions, things which I believe, not to be believed. My aim is reveal myself which may well be different tomorrow.

Michel De Montaigne

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#28. LAURA ATCHISON, Author of "What Would A Wise Woman Do?", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester:
"Truth is always wilder than fiction.
Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.

Laura Atchison

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#29. Suppose God should damn to everlasting fire a man so great and good, that he, looking from the abyss of hell, would forgive God, - how would a god feel then?

Robert G. Ingersoll

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#30. All the world seemed suddenly dream, for in what waking world would a prince deceive his own people for the benefit of a slave?
~ Ayden

Rachel Haimowitz

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#31. Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

Julie Orringer

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#32. I thought about falling to my knees on purpose. This was the kind of beauty you worshiped. The kind you built temples for and offered sacrifices to. I wished I had something in my empty hands to give her, but what would a goddess want from a mediocre mortal like me?

Stephenie Meyer

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#33. If I'm ever unsure as to the correct course of action, I'll think, "What would a ferret do?" or, "How would a salamander respond to this situation?" Invariably, I find the right answer. I

Gail Honeyman

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#34. Cordelia shook her head helplessly. "You would. A vote. Right." She buried her face in her hands a moment, and sobbed a laugh. "Why?" she asked through her fingers.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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#35. Why would a pretty thing like that marry a guard?

Sarah J. Maas

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#36. I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, 'Take off your clothes'?

Phyllis Diller

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#37. Annette had kissed me.
Who would'a thunk it?

Jordan Sonnenblick

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#38. When in doubt, ask yourself this: What would a really happy person do? Then do that.

Alexander Kjerulf

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#39. If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons

Strive Masiyiwa

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#40. I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

Eddie Campbell

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#41. Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

Jonathan Swift

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#42. Truth is always wilder than fiction. Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning
look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.
Laura Atchison, Author of What Would A Wise Woman Do?

Laura Atchison

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#43. If by how you dress, you are saying to guys, "Hey, look at my body," why would a guy want to get to know you?

Jason Evert

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#44. What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.

Jerry Seinfeld

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#45. Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be able to portray that in pictures with as few words as possible, which is what the best films are?

Sebastian Faulks

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#46. Inhaled. The way you would a peach, when you can't get enough of the smell and you want more.

Alessandra Torre

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#47. Where in the world would a star be without the love of the sky?

Munia Khan

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#48. Why would a god sacrifice her life if she was God? Just show real power and send an army of angels and there'd be no debate.

Peter Tieryas

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#49. You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?

Barbra Streisand

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#50. Maybe, she thought with some perversity, it wasn't the gods who controlled the universe, but cats. Cats who toyed with humans as a puppeteer would a marionette.

Kristen Britain

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#51. What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#52. What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth

George R R Martin

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#53. Tell me, Nana,
If for example we had been a love couple,
Would a hug have been enough to wash away my sadness?
Or then; does every single being carry this loneliness, like a burden?
I wans't intending to monopolizing you
I just wanted you to need me.

Ai Yazawa

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#54. It's exciting when kids look up to you or kids come up to you and ask for your autograph. When grown ups come up to you, that's really not exciting. Why would a grown man be excited for meeting another grown man?

Clinton Portis

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#55. If you judge me negatively, as you would a book by it's cover, you'd be surprised by what you see written on the pages inside

Rick Ferreira

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#56. Conquer your customer as you would a woman

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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#57. I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

Johnny Depp

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#58. Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to spill over, or break.

Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly

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#59. She saw the picture of idle fishing boats tied up at Peterhead; further gloom for Scotland and for a way of life that had produced such a strong culture. Fishermen had composed their songs; but what culture would a generation of computer operators leave behind them?

Alexander McCall Smith

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#60. Apparently, she had gobbled up the information like a hooker would a penis.

Mariana Zapata

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#61. What would a respectful political cartoon look like?

Salman Rushdie

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#62. A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.

Allen Johnson

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#63. I mean, why would a God create all of us and put us here if we were supposed to go around feeling bad about ourselves and pretending to be somebody we're not? How is hiding who you are telling the truth?

Aaron Hartzler

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#64. I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

Hisham Matar

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#65. Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.

Orison Swett Marden

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#66. It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

Stephan Pastis

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#67. Bekase why: would a wise man ant to live in de mid's er such a blimblammin' all de time? No
'deed he wouldn't. A wise man 'ud take en buil' a biler-factry; en den he could shet down de biler-factory when he want to res'.

Mark Twain

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#68. Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion ... [then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.

John Owen

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#69. Then she loved him as she would a manifestation of herself, both silenced and wounded in existence, both everything and nothing to eternity.

E.J. Koh

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#70. Well, I should like a plan that doesn't result in the death of my heir. (Eli)
Would a good maiming be considered over-the-top? (Varyk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#71. What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

Julia Cameron

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#72. Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

Brenda Jackson

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#73. Animals give so much love. What would a heaven be without them?

Charlotte Hughes

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#74. The exercise of my reason itself was forbidden. But the questions never stopped coming, eventually leading to this one: "Why would a benevolent God set up the world like this, marking one half of the population to be second-class citizens? Or was it just men who did this?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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#75. And despite the eyeliner, and the lipstick that defines her lips, she has a face now that a passerby's gaze will engage and then bounce from, as it would a street sign or a mailbox number. ...this is what aging is...

Khaled Hosseini

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#76. I perceived now that there is a love deeper than theirs who seek only the happiness of their beloved. Would a father see his daughter happy as a whore? Would a woman see her lover happy as a coward?

C.S. Lewis

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#77. Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?

Lord Randolph Churchill

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#78. How many times would a defendant's lawyer enter the courtroom before a session and ask each of the male clerks and paralegals around me, 'Are you the assistant in charge?' while I sat there invisible to him at the head of the table?

Sonia Sotomayor

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#79. Why, my client wondered, would a guy like me make his living like this? Well, you'd think the three hundred dollars he paid just to watch me take a shower would have given him a clue.

Scott Sherman

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#80. You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

John Ruskin

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#81. I have met Jackie Chan about 6 times up 'til now ... and even though many people think we are natural enemies, I personally think he is a cool bloke and would honestly love to work with him in a film one time - that would a well brilliant movie!

Jet Li

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#82. Where would a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. If there were no forest, he would make a forest. And if he wished to hide a dead leaf, he would make a dead forest.

G.K. Chesterton

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#83. Even masochists need lovers," I told him, my tone gentle. "What would a girl like me do without someone like you? Perhaps everyone is good for someoene.

R.K. Lilley

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#84. I waited, and I'm sure Elvis did too, for each Ricky Nelson record like we would a Chuck Berry record or a Fats Domino record, to see what was going on. I used to say to some of the guys that Ricky Nelson learned to sing on million selling records.

Roy Orbison

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#85. Why would a vampire create a younger vampire if there was a possibility the young one might end up destroying the old one?'
Stephin stared. 'If you can explain to me how this is different from parenting in general I might know how to answer that.

Adam Rex

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#86. Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?

Andy Rooney

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#87. Why would a football fan let a few flubbed minutes at the end of the game ruin three hours of bliss? Because a football game is a story. And in stories, endings matter.

Atul Gawande

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#88. You can grow up being a troublemaker and then before you know it the next thing you're doing is listening to Frank Zappa whilst chilling out ... now that's the intelligent way out. What would a psychiatrist say about that?

Stephen Richards

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#89. Without stratagems would a people fall, and deliverance is in a wise counsel.

Michael Bar-Zohar

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#90. Men like you and me who in the morning patted children on the head would a few hours later become meticulous executioners.

Albert Camus

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#91. I liked to nibble. Would a necklace interfere with my ability to nuzzle?

Helena Hunting

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#92. Would a DNA test for love take a sample from the heart or the mind?

Dean Cavanagh

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#93. Society may protect itself without putting a human to death as it would a wild animal. Since we believe each person has a soul, and is capable of achieving salvation, life in prison is now an alternative to the death penalty.

Richard Viguerie

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#94. Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget.

Ezra Taft Benson

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#95. Would-a Could-a Should-a Never Did-a

H.T. Bryer

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#96. Now, why would a dead girl lie?
Hey! That sounds like a joke. Why would a dead girl lie? Answer: Because she can't stand up.

Jay Asher

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#97. How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?

John Janzen

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#98. It would 'a' been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; for what you want, above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and feel right and kind towards the others.

Mark Twain

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#99. As usual I was working the graveyard shift - an irony I reveled in - at an emergency call center. What other shift would a vampire feel comfortable working?

Pat Henshaw

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#100. Would a human egg let itself be seen?

Jesmyn Ward

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