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"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.
Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.
You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.
One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)
If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.
If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?" - Qyburn
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.
Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
The idiot had shot their own dog. That’s what happened when the destructive potential of a man’s weapons exceeded his intelligence.
In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.
You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.
Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.
You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!
Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes
The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore.
Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.
let yourself cry, OK? One of the worst feelings in the world is being unable to cry and eventually it…starts to make things darker.
Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.
The half-human was the hottest thing he'd ever gotten anywhere near. And he'd cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.
Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah, blah, blah...
I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about.
I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.