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It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman. L. M. Montgomery
Cormac McCarthy quote: "I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just..."
I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have. Cormac McCarthy
There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear that there is no passion there at all, and that if they let go they would simply remain where they are, foolish and unmoved; and they could bear that least of all. Living a life of iron control lets them pretend to themselves that only by the mightiest effort of will can they hold great passions at... Philip Pullman
Harold Bloom quote: "Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you..."
Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others. Harold Bloom
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look. Diana Wynne Jones
SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate. Terry Prachett
Charlaine Harris quote: "It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable..."
It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds Charlaine Harris
News of the miracle had reached the doge's palace, but in a somewhat garbled form. the result of the successive transmissions of facts, true or assumed, real or purely imaginary, based on everything from partial, more or less eyewitness accounts to reports from those who simply liked the sound of their own voice, for, as we know all too well, no one telling a story can resist adding a period, and sometimes even a comma. Jose Saramago
John O'Hara quote: "Bing: You’re a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that..."
Bing: You’re a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn’t go your way, anything that you can’t have you destroy. John O'Hara
There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength. J. K. Rowling
I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of... Ingrid Bergman
I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh. Russell Brand
Aldous Huxley quote: "Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume..."
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. Aldous Huxley
Vaclav Havel quote: "Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be..."
Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times. Vaclav Havel

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