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1 " I wrote " David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature. "
2 " When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them. "
― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan
3 " The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel. "
― Elvis Costello
4 " My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about. "
― Oscar Wilde , The Importance of Being Earnest
5 " There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I am such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting. "
6 " The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage. "
― Terry Pratchett , Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind #8)
7 " When it comes to looking after all the species that are already endangered, there's such a lot to do that sometimes it might all seem to be too much, especially when there are so many other important things to worry about. But if we stop trying, the chances are that pretty soon we'll end up with a world where there are no tigers or elephants, or sawfishes or whooping cranes, or albatrosses or ground iguanas. And I think that would be a shame, don't you? "
― Martin Jenkins , Can We Save the Tiger?
8 " There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
9 " There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear. "
― Tove Jansson , Moominland Midwinter (The Moomins, #6)
10 " Having 'holy' thoughts, and doing bad deeds, such a lot are assholes indeed. "
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11 " In the country, especially, there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can walk over everybody's land, and look at everybody's view, and dabble in everybody's brook; and enjoy it just as much as though I owned the land--and with no taxes to pay! "
― Jean Webster
