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But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude--and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. ***Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.***...perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that... Joseph Conrad
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds - cooled - and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path. Toni Morrison
Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing... J. K. Rowling
Barack Obama quote: "The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But..."
The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But then again the road to change never is. Barack Obama
..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken away from you sooner or later, and there isn't a thing you can do about it. Clive Barker
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "Political life must be taken as you find it."
Political life must be taken as you find it. Benjamin Disraeli
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared. Alexander Dumas
Playboy : Have you ever taken LSD yourself? McLUHAN : No, I never have. I'm an observer in these matters, not a participant. Marshall McLuhan
While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give. James Joyce
Salman Rushdie quote: "A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second."
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. Salman Rushdie
Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom. J. R. R. Tolkien
Winston Churchill quote: "I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde quote: "Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the..."
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness. Oscar Wilde
Alain de Botton quote: "Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much..."
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. Alain de Botton
I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetative. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. But there are much worse games to play. Suzanne Collins

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