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...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on. Elspeth Huxley
My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too. Ernest Hemingway
Foster had in common with every great religious leader of that planet two traits: he had an extremely magnetic personality, and sexually he did not fall near the human norm. On Earth great religious leaders were always either celibate or the antithesis. Foster was not celibate. (p.289) Robert A. Heinlein
Tell me, how is Lucius Malfoy these days? I expect he's delighted his lapdog's working at Hogwarts, isn't he?"Speaking of dogs," said Snape softly, "did you know that Lucius Malfoy recognized you last time you risked a little jaunt outside? Clever idea, Black, getting yourself seen on a safe station platform. Gave you a cast-iron excuse not to leave your hidey-hole in future, didn't it? J. K. Rowling
John Bunyan quote: "a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he..."
a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had. John Bunyan
Marina Tsvetaeva quote: "No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did..."
No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? Marina Tsvetaeva
Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life. Douglas Adams
Margaret Atwood quote: "Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil...."
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. Margaret Atwood
You did really great up there,” I tell her, because I don’t know how to say what I really want to: that the people you love can surprise you every day. That maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it. Jodi Picoult
William C. Bryant quote: "Weep not that the world changes -did it keep a stable..."
Weep not that the world changes -did it keep a stable changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep. William C. Bryant
I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it. Toni Morrison
He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time. Cormac McCarthy
What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. Ray Bradbury
Clare Boothe Luce quote: "But if God had wanted us to think with just our wombs, why did..."
But if God had wanted us to think with just our wombs, why did He give us a brain? Clare Boothe Luce
No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give. Peter S. Beagle

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