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sum it up

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Stupidity, greed, misdirected aggression-or sum it up and call it man. Lester del Rey

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet. Kristen Stewart

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it. Patrick Rothfuss

Let me tell you, if anyone in the past has spoken ill of women, or speaks so now or will speak so in the future, I'll sum it up for him: Neither sea nor land has ever produced a more monstrous creature than woman. Euripides

Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked ‘What knowest thou of this wilderness?' It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words: ‘Alas, Alas! Khushwant Singh

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell. Peter Ackroyd

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