“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”
Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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Douglas Adams 317
English writer and humorist 1952–2001Related quotes
Dell, Diana. Memorable Quotations: Humorists, Wits, and Satirists of the Past, p. 54 http://books.google.com/books?id=IhgDPQvUM6YC&pg=PA54. iUniverse, 2000. ISBN 0595165958
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as quoted by [Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, Biographical Memoirs V.83, National Academies Press, 2003, 0-309-08699-X, 201]
“You're truly free for the first time. What could be more difficult than that?”
The Book of Martha
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
Quoted in Time magazine (13 June 1988).
Books, articles, and speeches
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail”
Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
“The first time flee; the second time, flee; and the third, become like a sword.”
Saying 140
As quoted in: J.Muller, Physical Chemistry in Depth (Springer Science & Business Media, 1992), p. 1. No primary source is given in that book.
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