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... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.
When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it
The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.
And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.
And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.
The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home.
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes.
Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.
In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.
An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.
The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
Let’s talk.” I pinned Red to his chair with my stare. I did deranged quite well, when the occasion required.
Is there anything else you need to tell me?” Every time I look at you, I have to put a leash on myself. “No.
Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.
The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.
I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.
I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.
Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum.
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
Avery, I haven’t messed around with Steph since I met you. I have messed around with anyone since I met you.
The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
[...]you know what they say about messengers, right"? Excuse me?" Too much bad news will get you shot."[...]
What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore
Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.
Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.