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Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.
Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once.
I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.
When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?
The smile he gave her was wistful, just a little lift to his mouth. "You are a fighter." ""Yes. Always. And sometimes I'm a whole army.
I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't." "That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.
If you want to have great sex, find a partner who really turns you on. Pills are merely props, and props can turn out to be a big drag.
If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.
My mother taught me to believe in ghosts: to use a Ouija board, have seances, and leave little offerings out for those who have passed.
While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.
As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.
I don't intend to write the same kind of book for the rest of my life because I feel I would not be satisfied only writing in one mode.
That okay. I'll go find somewhere else to sleep." Her fingers wrap around my arm. "You don't have to go anywhere. I feel safe with you.
Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.
It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.
You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.
Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.
A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.
Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.
I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.
We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
Think you can maybe not die for five minutes?" "I'll try,"I told him seriously. "You know, if anyone else said that, it would be funny.
My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.
I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.
Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.
I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.
you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.
Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.