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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.
The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.
Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.
Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.
That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.
We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.
Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.
He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.
The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true
Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears." Saiman
The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet.
It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you.
So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.
I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.
The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.
Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.
I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.
The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her.
my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.
Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.