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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.
The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'
To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.
We should clap or something." Curran said. "She's trying so hard.
He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.
You're an interesting woman." "Your interest has been duly noted.
Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open.
Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.
That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it
I've rejected certain books, then gone back later and loved them.
Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched.
Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.
Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.
I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book.
Blay was the closest thing to an angel Qhuinn had ever come near.
If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?
I like to design my clothes; I design my jewelry, yeah. It's fun.
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.
No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.
none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.
It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.
She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.