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I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.
The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.
If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.
In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.
You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.
Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.
I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.
No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.
There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.
If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness
I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.
No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.
Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.
I won't blast people out of my way just because they're there' said Harry. 'That's Voldemort's job.
The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting.
Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.