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If you start a conversation with your mind made up, you may as well not bother.
Richard Branson
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Skullion had little use for contraceptives at the best of times.Unnatural, he called them, and placed them in the lower social category of things along with elastic-sided boots and made-up bow ties. Not the sort of attire for a gentleman.

Tom (Thomas Ridley) Sharpe

— 1974  Porterhouse Blue, ch.9.

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Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves — all plot and no characters, or made-up characters — Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the characters make the war, and the war unmakes the characters. The gods, fates, furies had a relatively small hand in it. The mess was man-made, a synthetic, by think tank out of briefing session.

wilfrid sheed

— "A Fun-House Mirror" (1972), pp. 107-108

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My first impression is of a slightly bearded spinster: my second isof Willie King madeup like Philip II: my thirdof some thin little bird, peeking, crooked, reserved, violent and timid. 614


— 1931  On meeting  James  Joyce. Diary entry, 30  Jul.

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"Of course not," she agreed, "You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic."

brandon sanderson

— Blushweaver (Warbreaker (2009))

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