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Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices. — Benjamin Franklin

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Then they had gone outside, onto the steps, where a breeze lifted secondhand confetti — Zadie Smith

I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer. — Cornelia Funke

My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.' — Sophie Hannah

When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it. — Don Kardong

Be wary of listening to stories secondhand. — Tim Allen

Secondhand booksellers and binder's shops ran in uneven rows on either side of me, jumbled and jostled together like an ill-kept bookshelf. — Douglas Hulick

Ciro carried himself like a general in full regalia, when in fact he wore secondhand clothes from the donation bin. — Adriana Trigiani

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop. — C.S. Lewis

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life. — Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite place in the world is this store called My Sister's Closet in Arizona and it's the greatest secondhand shop in the world. — Chelsea Kane

There is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy. — Jacob Sullum

The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages. — Don DeLillo

I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise. — Caitlin Rose

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. — Brad Bird

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future. — Karl Lagerfeld

The people that set one animal against another haven't the guts to be bullies themselves. They're just secondhand cowards. — Cleveland Amory

What a treasure, to meet with any thing a new heart
all hearts, nowadays, are secondhand at best. — Maria Edgeworth

I am obsessed with shopping for secondhand clothing. Nobody else has it, and it has a story that comes with it. — Sheila Heti

That in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. — Jhumpa Lahiri

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. — Warren Bennis

You deserve more than a secondhand I love you. — Colleen Hoover

Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits. — Anthony J. Carson

Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. — Travis Rice

I secondhand-smoke know him. It's like we've got shared custody of you. — Rainbow Rowell

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Uncertainty to me was like Aardvaark to other people. A curious thing I had no notion of, but recongnised through secondhand illustrations. — Jeanette Winterson

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state. — Daniel Goleman

stocked was almost gone. Then she brought the print over to his old couch, a hideously ugly piece of furniture he must have bought secondhand. — Noelle Adams

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit. — Barbara Kingsolver

Simon Cowell seems like a very nice guy, but I think he's a secondhand Mickie Most to be honest. — Peter Noone

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. — Robertson Davies

You got to get out into the field. Secondhand information in this world only takes you so far. — Sally J. Pla

I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop. — Bridget Hall

A cheap, utilitarian clock hung on the wall; its secondhand clicked inconsistently - slow, fast, fast, slow - as if it were spitting out Morse code. — Anonymous