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Salman Rushdie quote: "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter...."
It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing. Salman Rushdie
But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow.'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail. 'It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy. But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast.''Perhaps you have heart disease,' said the Tin Woodman.'It may be,' said the Lion. L. Frank Baum
Leonora Carrington quote: "People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if..."
People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats. Leonora Carrington
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them Mark Haddon
...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting. Edward Gorey
The point I’m making,” said Yo-Less, “is that you’ve got to help your friends, right?” He turned to Johnny. ”Now, personally, I think you’re very nearly totally disturbed and suffering from psychosomatica and hearing voices and seeing delusions,” he said “and probably ought to be locked up in one of those white jackets with the stylish long sleeves. But that doesn’t matter, ’cause we’re friends. Terry Prachett
I tell you, sir, it's very easy for Pyotr Stepanovich to live in the world, because he imagines a man and then lives with him the way he imagined him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too. Kate DiCamillo
But a note had had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style to touch --a small mixture of reproach with a great deal of kindness Jane Austen
J. D. Salinger quote: "That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed,..."
That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think. J. D. Salinger
To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died. Louisa May Alcott
the arrows of fortune ….. derive their force from the velocity with which they are discharged; for, when they approach you by slow and perceptible degrees, they have but very little power to do you mischief. Henry Fielding
The crowd mistrusts the allurement of paladins. The masses, ponderous bodies that they are, and fragile on account of their very heaviness, fear adventure; and there is adventure in the ideal. Victor Hugo
Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps so, if one was left with one's gift stripped bare of all that made it worth having, and nothing else was left... Vera Brittain
Dost thou question my word, Sir Knight?" Madorallen returned in an ominously quiet voice. "And wilt thou then come down and put thy doubt to the test? Or is it perhaps that thou wouldst prefer to cringe doglike behind thy parapet and yap at thy betters?" "Oh, that was very good," Barak said admiringly. David Eddings

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