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...tragedy and death would follow a person whereever he went in life. There was no such thing as escape, except maybe the kind that Mr. Kirby had accomplished...

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I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place Gore Vidal
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. Alice Walker
Edmund Burke quote: "Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Edmund Burke
Vincent Bugliosi quote: "You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support."
You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support. Vincent Bugliosi
Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning. Sylvia Plath
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Marcus Valerius Martial quote: "A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere."
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. Marcus Valerius Martial
We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. Ray Bradbury
The dialectic of antiquity tended towards leadership (the great individual and the masses--the free man and the slaves); so far the dialectic of Christendom tends towards representation (the majority sees itself in its representative and is set free by the consciousness that it is the majority which is represented, in a sort of self-consciousness); the dialectic of the present age tends towards equality, and its most logical--though mistaken--fulfilment is levelling, as the negative unity of... Soren Kierkegaard
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We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. Shirin Ebadi
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We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think. Billie Joe Armstrong
They had reached Lockhart's classroom...'You could've fried an egg on your face" said Ron. 'You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting a Harry Potter fan club.''Shut up,' snapped Harry. The last thing he needed was for Lockhart to hear the phrase 'Harry Potter fan club. J. K. Rowling
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Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins. Margaret Atwood
When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that. Lesley-Anne Down