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But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen… — Graham Greene
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to… — Henri Nouwen
And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to… — William Faulkner
I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And… — Amy Tan
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. — Victor Hugo
Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the… — Koren Zailckas
Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them… — Alex Garland
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my… — Edgar Allan Poe
At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams… — Robin McKinley
It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in… — Margaret Atwood
You can't ever stop thinking something quick enough. Something that hurts always gets the knife in too fast for you to slam a lid on… — Lilith Saintcrow
You predicted quick victory. Now itâ€™s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, donâ€™t you know any better than that by now? — Jim Butcher
In quick succession, Qhuinn reviewed his answers: No, of course not, the knife was acting of its own volition. I was actually trying to stop… — J R Ward
Which way did they go, Peeves?" Filch was saying. "Quick, tell me." "Say 'please.'" "Don't mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go?" "Shan't… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation. — Georgette Heyer
Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me. — Walt Whitman
He put the box in Kahlan's lap. As she picked it up, she gave him the biggest smile he had ever seen. Before he even… — Terry Goodkind
Percy!â€ he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If youâ€™ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and… — Rick Riordan
I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four… — Albert Camus

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