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Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.
Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.
If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.
In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.
I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.
Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.
You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.
A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!
In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.
'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.
Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!
It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.
The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.
Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it.
Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all.
The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.
God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.
You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.
Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.
Well, prepare yourself. I am all kinds of thoughtful this week. I brought you something else.
The moment you see someone attractive, you can't help but make note of it. It's human nature.
For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other
So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.
The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.
There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.
Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres.
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.