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Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?
It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.
Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.
I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk.
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!
Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?
I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.
Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.
There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.
My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.
I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!
Thank you for caring for my brother." He took his sunglasses off. And looked at her with total adoration.
good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.
Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA.
Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?
Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?
There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.
It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.
I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.