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“I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms. Have you any idea of what a man must endure who leads such a life? No, you cannot. No one can unless he lives it for himself.”

“Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.”

“To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.”

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence.”

Years Silence One Thing Heard Taught Years Ago Ears Twenties

Author:Mark Nepo

“I was always interested in drawing and creating, but it never really occurred to me that I could pursue art as my profession until my mid twenties. From all I had heard from other people, art was just something you do as a hobby in between your real work and real jobs.”

People Art Real Jobs Heard Creating Twenties Profession Drawing Pursue Hobbies Real Jobs Real Work

Author:Julie Dillon

“I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.”

People Used Worry Heard Twenties Insane Teenager Schizophrenia Schizophrenic

Author:Brad Warner

“Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had heard my film score to Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. And she said, I want to do Anthem as an oratorio. Well, I figured what she meant was a straight play with music.”

Want Years Wells Said Ideas Play Film Heard Directors Twenties Artistic Score Jumping Anthem Austin Staging Film Scores

Author:Jeff Britting

“I'm not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words changed my approach to and experience of prayer. The words were these: 'Every thought you think is a prayer. Every word you speak is a prayer. Every act in which you engage is a prayer, because the Spirit of God lives in you.' Now, how awesome is that?”

Thinking Spirit Speak Prayer Heard Changed Approach Twenties Not Sure Spirit Of God Few Words God Life Words You Speak

Book:Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion

Source: Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion

“I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and nurse me, and I'd take her hostage for six months. When you're 23, 24, you want to be in a relationship because they look brilliant - you've heard all the songs about it and seen all the movies and it looks great.”

Want Looks Wanted Song Heard Months Six Twenties Brilliant Nurse Six Months Maids Hostage

Author:Robbie Williams

“Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”

Way Years Children Lasts Poor Mistake Compassion Heard Abuse Twenties Dear Delight Consideration Nerves Old Friends No Compassion Mrs Bennet

Book:The Complete Works of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abby, Persuasion, The Watsons, Sanditon, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship, The History of England, Lesley Castle

Source: The Complete Works of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abby, Persuasion, The Watsons, Sanditon, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship, The History of England, Lesley Castle

“One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.”

Knows Way Hours Four Heard Twenties Things In Life

Book:The pale horse

Source: The pale horse

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

Men Giving Heart Two Use Given Wise Heard Paid Twenties Endless Plenty Vain Fancy Pounds Crowns Pearls Sigh Bosoms Talk To Me Lad Rubies Guinea Rue

Author:A. E. Housman

“If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.”

Ifs Littles Problem Lasts Artist Hours Heard Minutes Poet Reader Scientist Twenties Suicide Commit Better Off Exhilaration Committing Suicide Re Entry

Book:Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.”

Years Two Three Heard Love You Serious Twenties Two Years Lasting Three Words Twenty Two Lasting Relationship

Author:Paulo Coelho

“When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.”

Firsts Spiritual Guy Teacher Relationship Heard Advice Love You Husband First Time Twenties Making Love This Guy Boyfriend Sexually Spiritual Teachers Machu Picchu

Author:Woody Harrelson

“"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.”

Firsts Moments Hands Law Left Class Rich Five Heard Middle Youth Twenties Golf Clubs Divorce Middle Class Breakfast Swings Virgins Aunt In-laws Champagne Twenty Five Left Hand Golf Clubs

Author:John Updike

“Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you go, people have heard of it, they've seen it and they're like, "Oh, that's sport I saw on TV or my grandson plays that," and it's changed the face of the game and potential of the future.”

People Years Play Faces Games Sports Saws Heard Changed Tvs Years Ago Twenties Sticks Fishing Grandson Lacrosse

Author:Gary Gait

“Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.”

Knows Men Want Stories Home Guy Interesting Party Five Wise Heard Twenties Invites Twenty Five Interesting Stories Wise Guy

Author:Joan Crawford