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The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seei...

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Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', '...

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Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and olde...

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You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have ni...

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I have noticed more than once in life that a taste for the ineffably twee can go hand-in-hand with a...

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Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve

Much as he detested Filch, Harry couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for him, though not nearly as sor...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

He wanted to be stopped, to be dragged back, to be sent back home... But he was home. Hogwarts was t...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the deat...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of star...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any De...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Don't count your owls before they are delivered.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finish...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of t...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we t...

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The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of wha...

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Hope springs forever.

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been test...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who ha...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the a...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long for...

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I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to y...

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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of ...

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I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much tha...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may...

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Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has a...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Return of the King

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up m...

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There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star...

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In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible ...

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Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He ...

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The treacherous are ever distrustful.

The day will bring hope for me," said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornbu...

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Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadi...

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I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stor...

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Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, ...

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You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a dam...

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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locom...

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But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa...

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I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my f...

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He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the ...

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Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and loo...

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Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will ...

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Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.

When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember...

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If you think we can't change the world, it just means you're not one of those who will.

Tracer lighting up the sky.It's another families' turn to die.A child afraid to even cry out says,He...

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Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a re...

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Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a re...

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Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a re...

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Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a re...

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Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If yo...

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The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any iden...

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James FreyA Million Little Pieces

The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and ...

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If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the c...

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The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed ...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human ...

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ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made ...

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It's God's world. He washes you clean. He makes you whole. He puts rain in your garden and sunshine ...

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My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that edu...

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James McBride (writer)The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll ...

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James McBride (writer)The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

The glories of our blood and stateAre shadows, not substantial things;There is no armor against Fate...

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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprec...

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James Weldon JohnsonThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, tha...

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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...

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but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its ...

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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some ...

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the s...

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so...

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Jane AustenPride And Prejudice

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by exten...

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...

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