"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."
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"It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician."
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"Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted."
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"Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh", said Hagrid. “Harry — yer a wizard."
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"From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism."
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"I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t."
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"Can you dance?" she asked before she could stop herself. "I can," he said, affronted. "I'm really good with the slow songs."
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"The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry."
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"This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it."
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"Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, And treat them just the same."
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"Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!"
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"Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another."
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"Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said."
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"The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it."
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"Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.'"
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"He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains."
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"Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them."
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"I got most of my confidence by having a mother who never said "I don't like this or this." It was just, "You've got to love what you have because it is the only body that has been given." I know that is where a lot of my confidence came from."
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"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images."
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"A lot of truth is said in jest."
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