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I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.
Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer.
I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?
Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!
Your great puddin' of a son don' need fattin' anymore Dursley, don't worry
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking." Cam: "Oh God." Avery: "Shut up.
Good? No, that didn't go far enough. She'd made him feel… alive. Awakened.
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.
Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.
God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.
The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.
I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.
Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.
“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.
I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.
When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.
You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.
If you can write any way and it's working out, just bow down in gratitude.
While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.
There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.
I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.
I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.
Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.
If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?
There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.
Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.
Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.
The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.
People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.