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Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.
So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.
It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.
The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.
It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to.
God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all
I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.
The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.
This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.
Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.
If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
My breath in the cold air was bleach that accidentally spilled on a black t-shirt.
I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.
Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
If I lose control, you'll be the first to know." "I'm quite perturbed by the idea.
I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.
I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.
So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that.
The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air.
Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.
Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.
Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.
If you're going to insist on being reasonable, I'm going to stop hanging with you.
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.