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“I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.”

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Author:Ishmael

“Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.”

“The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.”

God Destiny Gone Towns Captured

Author:Aeschylus

“You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of the room, and then you're gone. With a novel you move into town and stay for a long time. That's both comforting and terrifying.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls have gone off in boys' clothes and tried to pass themselves off as boys and enlist as volunteers, and several have got through, since the medical examination is only a negligible formality required in one place, forgotten in another.”

War Running School Girl Boys Gone Clothes Towns Forgotten Medical Russia Running Away Volunteer Examination Great War Formality

Book:Russia in 1916

Source: Russia in 1916

“If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used to being in a small town and used to seeing the same people all the time and going to the same grocery store every day, so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I was just excited to be on TV. I was just jumping for joy when I got there. I wasn't making any money, but I was sure happy.”

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Author:Todd Grisham

“The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.”

Light Levels Silence Darkness Gone Towns Train Burning Village Valleys Passages Projectile

Book:Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus

“I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“Growing up, my Mexican town of Monterrey was so safe, we wouldn't lock our cars or our front doors, and that is gone.”

Gone Growing Up Growing Doors Car Fronts Safe Towns Locks Mexican Front Doors

Author:Andrea Suarez Paz

“The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small town in Cornwall where Evelyn has gone on vacation and Brendan is working in his father's bookstore. The story is told from both perspectives, Brendan's and Evelyn's.”

People Two Book Stories Father Gone Perspective Towns Love Story Vacation Small Town Bookstores Cornwall

Author:Theodora Goss

“We spend less time with each other now than we did during the presidency. When you're president, you're usually out and back in the same day - at least I was. I just came from a trip to the Middle East last week, where I was gone for five nights, and when I left, Laura [Bush] was out of town.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.”

Thinking Men World Feels Should Art Play Seems Spirit Certain Space Rooms Gone Grew Exercise Offers Demand Grew Up Men And Women Towns Luxury Eras Breathing Museums Tigers Crowded Bookstores Vacant

Author:John Updike

“Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)”

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Book:The Polysyllabic Spree

Source: The Polysyllabic Spree

“An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.”

People Years Littles Gone Objects Authority Six Built Towns Edges Selling Destroyed Shirts Elsewhere Devoted T Shirt Six Year Olds

Book:Anathem

Source: Anathem

“She stretched out her hand, saying, “Vernon! My dear, what a delightful surprise!” “What’s surprising about it?” he enquired, lifting his black brows. “Didn’t you ask me to come?” The smile remained pinned to Lady Buxted’s lips, but she replied with more than a touch of acidity: “To be sure I did, but so many days ago that I supposed you had gone out of town!” “Oh, no!” he said, returning her smile with one of great sweetness.”

Said Hands Asks Black Gone Towns Surprise Lips Dear Ask Me Surprising Sweetness Delightful Lifting Brows Her Smile

Author:Georgette Heyer

“My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day's nigh spent; 'tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale's length past we lined our bowels with dinner, and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i'faith, there's time for naught but bold resolves!”

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Author:John Barth

“A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down on one knee. Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle; the whole town came and our mammas cried. And you said "I do.", and I did, too. Take me home where we met so many years before; we'll rock our babies on the very front porch. After all this time, you and I. And I'll be eighty-seven you'll be eighty-nine, I'll still look at you like the stars that shine. In the sky. Oh, my my my.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.”

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Author:Jason Aldean

“That cowboy had heartbreak written all over him and she'd be damned if she knew why every time he blew into town she ended up naked before he ended up gone. Reed always ended up gone.”

Ifs Gone Written Towns Naked Cowboy Reeds

Book:Whisper No Lies

Source: Whisper No Lies

“I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty”

Knows Needs Feels Two Hard Today Lasts Gone Please Towns Welcome Uncles Taxi Two Days Peaches Replacements Expeditions Giddy Monty Wasps Toothbrushes Peruvians

Author:Daniel Handler

“It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.”

Bigs Used Gone Industry Towns Used To Be Elegance Big Families

Author:Cesar Romero

“You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

“Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay, And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill, While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will, "Polly!-Polly!- The cows are in the corn! Oh, where's Polly?"”

Men Mind Mother Father Boys Gone Doors He Man Calling Summer Towns Kitchen Cows Hollow Corn July Mills Robins Jamie Hay Whistling

Book:Lyrics

Source: Lyrics

“Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.”

Three Stars Black Gone Months Becoming Towns Pops Sheep Three Months Pop Stars Black Sheep

Author:Alison Moyet

“Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.”

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Author:Quentin Crisp

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