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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.
Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.
Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.
Did I hurt you in the parking lot?" "No, m'lady. I fell, so I could put a tracker on your car." Great.
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
He must have known I'd want to leave you." "No, he must have known you would always want to come back.
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.
It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.
I knew I could do it all this time,” said Harry, “Because I'd already done it... does that make sense?
Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
She was staying. A little longer. V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth
How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!
You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.
The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.
Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?
I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality.
Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.
Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.
I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.
Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.
The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.
Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.