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“There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.”

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Book:A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

Source: A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

“I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.”

Thinking Should Years Bigs Five Thousand Hundred Dollars Five Years

Author:Dion DiMucci

“It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.”

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Author:Roger Clemens

“One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack on the way poets were neglected. Yet there were about two thousand people present, and he was being paid five hundred dollars for delivering this attack.”

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Author:Stephen Spender

“What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.”

Years Business Five Hundred Five Years Music Business

Book:A Visit From the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.”

Ifs Years Night Fall Hours Sleep Answers Laughing Five Heard Laughter Expectations Hundred Wine Bread Phrases Five Years One Hour Caress Bread And Wine Overloaded

Author:Anais Nin

“James, you are all the family I have. I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years. I owe you everything, and if you cannot believe I have empathy, perhaps you might at least believe I know honor--honor, and debt--”

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Author:Cassandra Clare

“I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.”

Ifs Knows Years Would Be Past Dies Five Hundred Five Years Without You

Book:Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.”