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People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.
My parents professed to believe in God, but I rarely heard his name mentioned unattached to 'damn' or 'sakes' or 'willing.
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.
She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.
If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.
I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.
I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.
I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.
What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.
My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm.
Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.
My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?
We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.
While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.
the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.
Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.
Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.
Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.
If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
Jealous of the actors now, are we?" "What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable." Oh, this was going to be good.
He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me?
Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.
Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
One of the best parts of being a writer is getting to peer into other worlds - even if you aren't going to stay very long.
If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.
We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.
I want you to know that I’m serious. You’re not a hook up. You’re not a friend with benefits. You’re more than that to me.
Then how about we start with a shower," he said in the kind of deep voice that made her consider the value of cleanliness.