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Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I meant best.
And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.
No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.
Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!
Harry, we saw Uranus up close!” said Ron, still giggling feebly. “Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus — ha ha ha —
I’ll accept your apology on one condition.” He folded his arms across his chest. “Anything?” “You trust me.
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
After a moment the king said, "So be it." Zsadist cursed. Butch whistled low. Rhage bit into a Tootsie Pop.
When she didn't continue, he shrugged. "Just let me bring you coffee. I want to wait on you. Makes me happy
"Say the word, Qhuinn. Do it and I'll spend the night with you.""Better yet, why don't you just kiss me..."
he(Quinn)put his hand out to his friend. “I’ll lay my life down for you.With or Without that piece of paper
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?
One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
People are running to and from class and I just want to yell, Slow down and wait for the world to catch up!
How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.
Gay men should not adopt the sophomoric model of heterosexual dating; gay men should always have sex first.
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.
My kids, who are grown now and living in L.A., are used to me packing up and taking off to somewhere weird.
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
..."I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.
As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things
It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.