#nine

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century. ↗

— John McGahern

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I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#century #chair #couch #editorial #nineteenth

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#nine #out #right #ten #times

Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues. ↗

— Thomas Menino

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When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations. ↗

— Paul Merton

#books #comedy #generations #history #humour

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#agents #another #book #brown #deal

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. ↗

— James A. Michener

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