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Ron and Hermione were still smirking and Harry felt his temper rise; he wasn’t even sure why he was feeling so angry. “Don’t sit there grinning like you know better than I do, I was there, wasn’t I?” he said heatedly. “I know what went on, all right? And I didn’t get through any of that because I was brilliant at Defense Against the Dark Arts, I got through it all because — because help came at the right time, or because I guessed right — but I just blundered through it all, I didn’t have a... J. K. Rowling
That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. All memorable events ... transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say "All intelligences awake in the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. Walden Henry David Thoreau
some books against Deism fell into my hands ... it happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quote to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist. Benjamin Franklin
...They said I looked like a foreign devil; they said I spoke like a foreign devil. I made mistakes in manners, and I didn't know delicacies that had grown up since my father left. They wouldn't have me. You can believe it or not - I'm less foreign here than I was in China. John Steinbeck
Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other. Nora Roberts
In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one. Tom Robbins
It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world. John Ruskin
All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing. Leo Tolstoy
Peter S. Beagle quote: "Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle..."
Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts... Peter S. Beagle
I. F. Stone quote: "Typos are worse than facism."
Typos are worse than facism. I. F. Stone
Woody Allen quote: "Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in..."
Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian. Woody Allen
It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God. Dean Inge
Jodi Picoult quote: "When you care more if someone else lives than you do about..."
When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]? Jodi Picoult
Marcel Proust quote: "Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on..."
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far. Marcel Proust
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. John Steinbeck

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