“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”
Quoted in "Table Talk" http://books.google.com/books?id=LIxUAAAAcAAJ&q=%22greatest+pleasure+I+know+is+to+do+a+good+action+by+stealth+and+to+have+it+found+out+by+accident%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage in The Athenaeum magazine (4 January 1834).
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“Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.”
Trial and Error http://books.google.com/books?id=5uiVyB4Hu2oC&pg=PT177&dq=%E2%80%9CCharacterization+is+an+accident+that+flows+out+of+action+and+dialogue.%E2%80%9D&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qhvHUaSpKfHa4APz9YCgAw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA (1980)

“Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.”
The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), ch. 3

“Do you know what I found out that blew my mouth?”
"One Suck Worth... - #533 | RT Podcast" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFqKN8G7l6k. youtube.com. February 27, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2022.

from an unnamed Swedish radio program, quoted in Mirror.co.uk, "Blix Blasts 'Illegal' US War on Iraq", August 7, 2003 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13263825_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-BLIX-BLASTS--ILLEGAL--US-WAR-ON-IRAQ-name_page.html

Source: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 8, "Hawks"