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In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.
I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.
I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.
Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.
I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.
To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.
Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.
Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.
...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.
I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board
He said 'woman' in the same way I'd say 'Mmmm, yummy chocolate.
He kissed me, and I pulled my personal psycho into bed with me.
Your master plan has holes big enough to drive a truck through.
Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.
What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.
Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?
Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub!
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.
You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good.
There is no point in apportioning blame. What is done, is done.
You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.
And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?
People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils.
There was a difference between loving someone and being in love
History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.
The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.
...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.
Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.