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• Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

  C. S. Lewis

  País, Pensar, Hablar

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• Franny tiene el sarampión, para empezar. Por cierto, ¿la oíste la semana pasada? Habló largo y tendido sobre cómo solía volar por todo el apartamento cuando tenía cuatro años y no había nadie en casa. El nuevo locutor es peor que Grant - si es posible, incluso peor que Sullivan en los viejos tiempos. Dijo que seguramente ella soñaba que era capaz de volar. El bebé se mantuvo firme como un ángel. Dijo que sabía que era capaz de volar porque cuando bajaba siempre tenía polvo en los dedos de tocar las bombillas.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hermoso, Bebé, Hogar

  "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters y Seymour: Una introducción". Libro de J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a sense of time rushing by while it seemed to be standing still. whenever i thought of time in puerto rico, i was reminded of those old magnetic clocks that hung on the walls of my classrooms in high school. every now and then a hand would not move for several minutes -- and if i watched it long enough, wondering if it had finally broken down, the sudden click of the hand jumping three for four notches would startle me when it came.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Wall, Moving, School

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Circles, Magic

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.141, Random House

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• Durante cuatro malvados siglos, el mundo ha soñado este insensato sueño de eficiencia; y aún no ha llegado el final. Pero el fin llegará.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dream, Wicked, World

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1324, e-artnow

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• When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

  Don DeLillo

  Death, Thinking, Years

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• Los cuatro acuerdos 1. Sé impecable con tu palabra. 2. No te tomes nada como algo personal. 3. No hagas suposiciones. 4. 4. Da siempre lo mejor de ti.

  Miguel Ángel Ruiz

  Vida, Acuerdo, Honor

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• Las palabras son así, engañan, se amontonan, parece que no saben a dónde ir, y, de repente, por dos o tres o cuatro que salen de repente, simples en sí mismas, un pronombre personal, un adverbio, un adjetivo, tenemos la emoción de verlos salir irresistiblemente a la superficie a través de la piel y de los ojos y alterar la compostura de nuestros sentimientos, a veces los nervios que no aguantan más, aguantan mucho, lo aguantan todo, es como si llevaran una armadura, podríamos decir.

  José Saramago

  Ojo, Simple, Dos

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• Un carruaje veloz, de noche oscura, traqueteando con cuatro caballos por caminos que no se ven... ésa es mi idea de la felicidad.

  Henry James

  Caballo, Oscuridad, Noche

  Henry James (2015). "Las novelas completas de Henry James: El retrato de una dama + Las alas de la paloma + Lo que Maisie sabía + El americano + El bostoniano + Los embajadores + Washington Square y más (Unabridged): Confianza + Roderick Hudson + La edad incómoda + Los europeos + El cuenco dorado + La otra casa + El clamor + La princesa Casamassima + El reverbero + La fuente sagrada....", p.2534, e-artnow

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• Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

  Christopher Moore

  Whales, Car, Police

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• She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Morning, School, Feet

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.

  Jim Stovall

  Perfect, Three, Lost Everything

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• Sonrió comprensivamente, mucho más que comprensivamente. Era una de esas raras sonrisas con una cualidad de seguridad eterna, que uno puede encontrarse cuatro o cinco veces en la vida. Miró -o pareció mirar- a todo el mundo eterno durante un instante, y luego se concentró en ti con un prejuicio irresistible a tu favor. Te comprendía tanto como tú querías ser comprendido, creía en ti como a ti te gustaría creer en ti mismo, y te aseguraba que tenía precisamente la impresión de ti que, en tus mejores momentos, esperabas transmitir.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Creer, Calidad, Mundo

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). "O Grande Gatsby: El Gran Gatsby: Edição bilíngue português - inglês", p.174, Editora Landmark LTDA.

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• 1 de abril. Es el día en que se nos recuerda lo que somos los otros trescientos sesenta y cuatro.

  Mark Twain

  Divertido, Humor, Día de los Inocentes

  Pudd'nhead Wilson cap. 21, "El calendario de Pudd'nhead Wilson" (1894)

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• There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Honesty, Practice

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• ..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Gentleman

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• Seguramente todo el mundo es consciente de los divinos placeres que acompañan a una chimenea invernal: velas a las cuatro, cálidos manteles, té, una buena tetera, las contraventanas cerradas, las cortinas cayendo en amplios cortinajes hasta el suelo, mientras el viento y la lluvia rugen audiblemente fuera.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Rain, Wind, Tea

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• Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Laughter, Our World, People

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• You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely reminded of being four years old at the beach, crying when the wind came up and blew away the castle she had made. Her mother had told her she could make another one if she liked, but it hadn't stopped her crying because what she had thought was permanent was not permanent after all, but only made out of sand that vanished at the touch of wind and water.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Beach, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.819, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.

  Daniel Handler

  Kings, Queens, Popular Entertainment

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• Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.

  Yogi Berra

  Cutting, Thinking, Eight

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• All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Hands, Wheels

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.166, Penguin

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• Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms.

  Annie Dillard

  Dog, Pain, Book

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• La chica le lanzó una mirada que debería haber sobresalido al menos diez centímetros de su espalda.

  Raymond Chandler

  Girl, Looks, Inches

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.6, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Time, Night, Texas

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.4, Thomas Wolfe

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