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Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.
Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.
Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it.
Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.
…I don’t wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.
Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.
It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.
I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.
An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.
We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow
There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.
I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath Briony bed, but no one wanted to know.
Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life.
So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance.
There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.