#curses

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#curses #prayer #business

Imperio!” Moody jerked his wand, and the spider rose onto two of its hind legs and went into what was unmistakably a tap dance. Everyone was laughing — everyone except Moody. “Think it’s funny, do you?” he growled. “You’d like it, would you, if I did it to you?” The laughter died away almost instantly. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#mad-eye-moody #spells #spiders #tap-dance #funny

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#black #black magic #casual #curses #effective

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#curses #i #i think #only #parties

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#cool #curse #curses #eloquently #father

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#becomes #believe #care #come #curses

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#curses #deeper #his #man #silence

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. ↗

— George Gissing

#curses #generous #leaves #poverty #right

At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#april #curses #end #i #inform

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#conceivable #curses #decent #getting #gone