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It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#music #relationships #music

He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very touched, Harry. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #touching #music

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. ↗

— Keith Richards

#music #philosophy #politics #music

Think before you speak. Read before you think. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#books #reader #reading #speaking #thinking

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. ↗

— Anne Frank

#human-nature #nature

Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#mortal-instruments #nature

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#nature

But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #nature

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#economic-stimulus-act-of- #nature

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest). ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#mountains #nature #page- #nature