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They should have included a picture of your smile in the space probe as a warning.

I can't believe he stabbed the guy. Eight years old. I'm the most irresponsible kidnapper ever.

You know, there is only one letter's difference between lonely and lovely," I told him once when he was down. "There is only one letter's difference between loner and loser," he retorted.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

If Harry had been less noble, less fair-minded, Cedric would have lived. It is a very classic example of how noble intentions often lead to tragic results." He straightened, squared off with the hunter. "I have no desire to be Harry Potter.

I certainly hope you aren't perfect. Else I'll have to make shit up to punish you.

This feat of Tell, the archer, will be toldWhile yonder mountains stand upon their base.By heaven! The apple's cleft right through the core.

What is this reason, with its universality, infallibility, exuberant certainty and obviousness? An ens rationis, a stuffed dummy which the howling superstition of our unreason endows with divine attributes.

What is sublime in Caesar's style is its carelessness.

Naught so insipid in the world I find As is a devil in despair.

I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

You aren't a machine with broken parts. You are an animal whose needs are not being met.

Creativity is not [where you create] some new thing that's emerged from your brain," Nathan told me. "It's a new association between two things that were already there.

The primary explanation for depression offered in our culture starts to fall apart. The idea you feel terrible because of a "chemical imbalance" was built on a series of mistakes and errors. It has come as close to being proved wrong, he told me, as you ever get in science. It's lying broken on the floor, like a neurochemical Humpty Dumpty with a very sad smile.

dollars for this single piece of fruit, and carried it into my room in the Very Charming Hanoi Hotel. Like any good foreigner who's read his health warnings

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.

So much simplicity with so much understanding — so mild, and yet so resolute — a mind so placid, and a life so active.

He calls it reason, using it To be more beast than ever beast was yet.

Dust shall he eat, and greedily, like my celebrated serpent-cousin

No: ill-humour arises from an inward consciousness of our own want of merit, from a discontent which ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity engenders.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.