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Always Quotes (page 361)

Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection. J. K. Rowling
Stephen King quote: "Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on."
Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on. Stephen King
Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children. So you're right, it's a child's question, just as it should be. Yevgeny Zamyatin
That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important than a whole continent. Graham Greene
Henrik Ibsen quote: "I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is..."
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right. Henrik Ibsen
Paul's face grew serious. 'I think whenever a people has enormous resources, it is easy for them to call themselves democratic. I think of myself more as a physician than an American. We belong to the nation of those who care for the sick. Americans are lazy democrats, and it is my belief, as someone who shares the same nationality as [a Russian doctor], I think the rich can always call themselves democratic, but the sick people are not among the rich [...] I'm very proud to be an American. I... Tracy Kidder
Umberto Eco quote: "Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the..."
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. Umberto Eco
It’s always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read anyway. Margaret Atwood
Charles Baudelaire quote: "I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost..."
I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so. Charles Baudelaire
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise. Albert Camus
In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers Sherwood Anderson
Virginia Woolf quote: "I always wish that you could marry everybody who wants to..."
I always wish that you could marry everybody who wants to marry you. Virginia Woolf
In the eulogy by the graveside, I told everyone how my sister and I used to sing to each other on our birthday. I told them that, when I thought of my sister, I could still hear her laughter, sense her optimism, and feel her faith. I told them that my sister was the kindest person I;ve ever known, and that the world was a sadder place without her in it. And finally, I told them to remember my sister with a smile, like I did, for even though she was being buried near my parents, the best... Nicholas Sparks
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you tha? Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more. Samuel Beckett
Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not, as is asserted, flight from a wretched reality, but from the last remaining thought of resistance. Theodor Adorno

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