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Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. F. Scott Fitzgerald
We should get a move on you know... ask someone. He's right. We don't want to end up with a pair of trolls."Hermione let out a sputter of indignation. "A pair of... what excuse me?"Well - you know," said Ron shrugging. "I'd rather go alone than with - with Eloise Midgen, say."Her acne's loads better lately - and she's really nice."Her nose's off-centre," said Ron."Oh I see," Hermione said bristling. "So basically you're going to take the best-looking girl who'll have you even if she's... J. K. Rowling
I have heard of daydreams? is she in a daydream now? Her eyes are fixed on the floor, but I am sure they do not see it? her sight seems turned in, gone down into her heart: she is looking at what she can remember, I believe; not at what is really present. Charlotte Bronte
Jodi Picoult quote: "I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm..."
I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden. Jodi Picoult
Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride, Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall. Upon his bed, however, Shakespeare die, Having endured them all. Louise Bogan
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be..."
I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with Vladimir Nabokov
Orson Scott Card quote: "You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the..."
You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the next move, to see where it's all going to lead. Orson Scott Card
Tina Fey quote: "You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide,..."
You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute. Tina Fey
Tina Fey quote: "This made no sense to me, probably because I speak English and..."
This made no sense to me, probably because I speak English and have never had a head injury. Tina Fey
But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place. James Baldwin
What ability there is in an individual may be measured by the yardstick of how far there is between his understanding and his will. What a person can understand he must also be able to force himself to will. Between understanding and willing is where excuses and evasions have their being. Soren Kierkegaard
I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought). Jean Rhys
It is not the artistic aptitudes that are secondary sexual characters as some shams and shamans have said; it is the other way around: sex is but the ancilla of art. Vladimir Nabokov
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children. Henrik Ibsen
In the middle of the conversation, I open a third ale. I cup my hand over the mouthpiece so they don't hear the tab of the ale being popped. It dawns on me that this is a slightly contrary action. Like stopping into Baby Gap before having an abortion. Augusten Burroughs

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