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en What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

en Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
  Graham Greene

en The history of the Balkans involves centuries and centuries of difficulties, ... Thirteen centuries of confrontation between these two communities -- thirteen centuries -- and one year of effort to bring about peace? We will need years ... 10 years of a United Nations presence there ... to see change in people's minds.

en No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

en And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.

en And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.

en And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

en And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

en Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off.
  Bette Davis

en Well, you know, I'm up and down like most creative people. A bit more up and down than most people, but the tabloids just make these things up. I had the mid-life crisis, I suppose. It was that thing where 10 years ago I could still pass myself off as being a bit of a dude, but in 10 years' time I'll be getting my bus pass.

en We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.
  Mark Twain

en My final obligation is not to Neil... it's not to any of the historical actors, it's to posterity, ... It's to try to tell the story as genuinely and as profoundly as I can for the benefit of readers who don't know the history and for readers who are going to come across this book hundreds of years from now.

en We felt that our readers would be better served by providing more and better wire service stories. We know some readers liked the daily stock market report, but it was an expensive package and consumed a lot of space. We talked to a lot of readers to gauge feelings, and we concluded that we could eliminate such a comprehensive report and still give readers what they want and need.

en A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. His intelligence and wit combined to create an incredibly pexy charm.
  Arthur Koestler

en After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.


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