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Source: The Doctor and the Soul

Source: Eragon

Bill Skarsgard on ‘IT’ and Tapping into His Fears to Create a Terrifying New Pennywise http://collider.com/bill-skarsgard-pennywise-it-movie-interview/#images (July 28, 2017)

Letter to Catherine L. Moore (7 February 1937), in Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 407-408
Non-Fiction, Letters

http://www.movietome.com/people/86509/daniel-radcliffe/trivia.html

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu.
Source: Mauprat, ch. 11 (1837); Matilda M. Hays (trans.) Mauprat (London: E. Churton, 1847) p. 121

Source: 1984

Variant: I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
Source: When Harry Met Sally

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Eragon

Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter I, opening lines (as reported in The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell)

Tweets by year, 2011

Enchanted.
Song lyrics, Speak Now (2010)

Audio Interview http://www.geekson.com/archives/archiveepisodes/2006/episode080406.htm with Geekson http://www.geekson.com in Episode 54, (4 August 2006)

You just have to laugh at yourself. It's funny.
Interview on The Ellen Show, "Ellen Chats With Justin Bieber", 3 November, 2010

Source: A Memory of Solferino (1862), p. 16; As quoted in The Independent, Friday, 22 February 2002 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/change-obsolete-rules-of-warfare-says-bush-envoy-661637.html

Reflections on Gandhi (1949)

"Charles Dickens" (1939)
Context: When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page. It is not necessarily the actual face of the writer. I feel this very strongly with Swift, with Defoe, with Fielding, Stendhal, Thackeray, Flaubert, though in several cases I do not know what these people looked like and do not want to know. What one sees is the face that the writer ought to have. Well, in the case of Dickens I see a face that is not quite the face of Dickens's photographs, though it resembles it. It is the face of a man of about forty, with a small beard and a high colour. He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity. It is the face of a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open and is not frightened, the face of a man who is generously angry — in other words, of a nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Source: Jacob's Room

Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff

Source: Clockwork Princess

Variant: You can fix anything but a blank page.

Source: The Waves

Source: The Waves

Source: Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel

Source: Sourcery

Variant: Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/276449081746915328 (5 December 2012) <br class="br">Twitter <br class="br">Source: The Selfish Gene

Source: The Republic of Love

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

The Dharma Bums (1958)

Source: Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

Source: The Waves

Source: Jacob's Room

Source: Sourcery

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 London Premiere (July 2011)
2010s

Même au point de vue des plus insignifiantes choses de la vie, nous ne sommes pas un tout matériellement constitué, identique pour tout le monde et dont chacun n'a qu'à aller prendre connaissance comme d'un cahier des charges ou d'un testament; notre personnalité sociale est une création de la pensée des autres.
"Overture"
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol I: Swann's Way (1913)

About "What kinds of applications have you been excited to see develop?"
1990s, Interview with Lotfi Zadeh, Creator of Fuzzy Logic (1994)

Answering a question on temptation via Facebook - &quot;TB Joshua Talks About Marriage, Deliverance And Personal Experience&quot; https://www.naij.com/56634.html Naij (January 13 2014)

Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 3, hadith number 433
Sunni Hadith

1850s, Speech at Chicago (1858)

Chap. VIII: The Masses Intervene In Everything, And Why Their Intervention Is Solely By Violence
The Revolt of the Masses (1929)

Night Moves.
Song lyrics, Night Moves (1976)

A Tramp Abroad (1880)

Source: The Cave (2000), p. 60 (Vintage 2003)

Women and Roses.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Barack Obama’s Remarks in St. Paul http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/us/politics/03text-obama.html (3 June 2008) <br class="br">2008

Mais qu’un marchand de chameaux excite une sédition dans sa bourgade; qu’associé à quelques malheureux coracites il leur persuade qu’il s’entretient avec l’ange Gabriel; qu’il se vante d’avoir été ravi au ciel, et d’y avoir reçu une partie de ce livre inintelligible qui fait frémir le sens commun à chaque page; que, pour faire respecter ce livre, il porte dans sa patrie le fer et la flamme; qu’il égorge les pères, qu’il ravisse les filles, qu’il donne aux vaincus le choix de sa religion ou de la mort, c’est assurément ce que nul homme ne peut excuser, à moins qu’il ne soit né Turc, et que la superstition n’étouffe en lui toute lumière naturelle.
Referring to Muhammad, in a letter to Frederick II of Prussia (December 1740), published in Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, Vol. 7 (1869), edited by Georges Avenel, p. 105
Citas

Se orgoglio ho io, è quello di aver sempre servito fedelmente e con devozione illimitata voi, Duce.

Guest lecture, UC Berkeley http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7582902000166025817 Oct. 5, 2005 – 40 min.

Introduction, sect. 6
La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

Hymn: The Burial of Moses http://www.bethanyipc.org.sg/poems/bulletin080113.htm

1910s, Citizenship in a Republic (1910)

Introducing the best adapted screenplay at the 2003 Academy Awards

Prussianism and Socialism (1919)

No to Age banding Campaign http://www.notoagebanding.org/index.php?comments/authors <br class="br">General sources

Source: 1880's, Renoir – his life and work, 1975, p. 169 : quote from Renoir's letter to his art-seller Durand-Ruel, 21st November 1881

The Secret Knowledge

On her creative inspiration http://tolucantimes.info/section/inside-this-issue/young-author-makes-her-mark-in-the-world-of-children’s-literature/

J'accuse! (1898)

Attributed to Augustine in &quot;Select Proverbs of All Nations&quot; (1824) by &quot;Thomas Fielding&quot; (John Wade), p. 216 http://www.archive.org/details/selectproverbsa00wadegoog, and later in the form &quot;The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page&quot;, as quoted in 20,000 Quips &amp; Quotes (1995) by Evan Esar, p. 822; this has not been located in Augustine&#x27;s writings, and may be a variant translation of an expression found in Le Cosmopolite (1753) by Fougeret de Monbron: &quot;The universe is a sort of book, whose first page one has read when one has seen only one&#x27;s own country.&quot; <br class="br">Misattributed

It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives. <br class="br">In the House of Lords, 30 May 1962 ( Hansard, Col. 227 http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1962/may/30/the-army-estimates#S5LV0241P0-00791)

Foreword
My Life (1930)

Tuesday 2 September, 1930
A Moment's Liberty (1990)

&quot; My Father&#x27;s Suitcase&quot;, Nobel Prize for Literature lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/pamuk-lecture_en.html (December 7, 2006).

Wittgenstein in conversation with Maurice O'Connor Drury, cited in Rush Rhees (eds.) Recollections of Wittgenstein: Hermine Wittgenstein--Fania Pascal--F.R. Leavis--John King--M. O'C. Drury, Oxford University Press, 1984; p. xvi, and p. 168.
Attributed from posthumous publications

Knox College Commencement Address (4 June 2005) http://www.knox.edu/x9803.xml <br class="br">2005

From At home with André and Simone Weil by Sylvie Weil, p. 31 https://books.google.com/books?id=OdeDlT9-GBUC&amp;pg=PA31 <br class="br">Quote About

On Friedrich Hayek's Prices and Production, in Collected Writings, vol. XII, p. 252

Ibid.
The Education of the Stoic

alt.fan.pratchett (8 August 1997) http://www.lspace.org/ftp/words/pqf/pqf <br class="br">Usenet

From Quintin Jardine’s blog, ‘The Kindle threat’, September 29, 2010.

"How It Strikes a Contemporary"
The Common Reader (1925)

"Now you get it."
Jace Herondale and Jordan Kyle, pg. 29
The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

On Frédéric Chopin, in Oeuvres autobiographiques, edited by Georges Lubin, Vol. 2; Histoire de ma vie, p. 446. I [Jeffrey Kallberg] have modified somewhat the English translation printed in George Sand, Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand, group translation ed. Thelma Jurgrau (Albany, 1991), p. 1109. The chapter on Chopin dates from August or September 1854.
Context: His creation was spontaneous, miraculous. He found it without searching for it, without foreseeing it. It came to his piano suddenly, complete, sublime, or it sang in his head during a walk, and he would hasten to hear it again by, tossing it off on his instrument. But then would begin the most heartbreaking labor I have ever witnessed. It was a series of efforts, indecision, and impatience to recapture certain details of the theme he had heard: what had come to him all of a piece, he now over-analyzed in his desire to write it down, and his regret at not finding it again "neat," as he said, would throw him into a kind of despair. He would shut himself up in his room for days at a time, weeping, pacing, breaking his pens, repeating and changing a single measure a hundred times, writing it and effacing it with equal frequency, and beginning again the next day with a meticulous and desperate perseverance. He would spend six weeks on one page, only to end up writing it just as he had traced it in his first outpouring.

Source: The Limits of State Action (1792), Ch. 6
Context: The grand, leading principle, towards which every argument hitherto unfolded in these pages directly converges, is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity; but national education, since at least it presupposes the selection and appointment of some one instructor, must always promote a definite form of development, however careful to avoid such an error. And hence it is attended with all those disadvantages which we before observed to flow from such a positive policy; and it only remains to be added, that every restriction becomes more directly fatal, when it operates on the moral part of our nature,—that if there is one thing more than another which absolutely requires free activity on the part of the individual, it is precisely education, whose object it is to develop the individual.

Cited in Herbert Henry Asquith, Letters of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith to a Friend, Vol. 2 (1933), p. 94.
Sourced but undated
Context: Miss Sands told me that Queen Victoria, who was latterly éprise with Disraeli, one day asked him what was his real religion. "Madam," he replied, "I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New."

On writing as a kind of spiritual act in “Both Freedom and Constraint: An Interview with Randa Abdel-Fattah” https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/both-freedom-and-constraint-an-interview-with in Words Without Borders (May 2015)

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. Explanation: Paine explained the need to speak out against a tyrannical power, notably Britain and King George III, because not doing so could be a dangerous action on its own. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. This first part actually has two sections on its own. In the first half, Paine says it’s important to note the “wrongs” that occur when injustices are clear — not doing so gives them the “appearance of being right.” In the second half, he notes that people’s first reactions to those complaints are always to side on the side of “custom” — that is, to oppose attacks against institutions. <br class="br">But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. Explanation: Most Americans are not in favor of impeachment at this moment. It’s a reaction against a guarded institution — and citizens are going to behave in ways that make it seem they’re against the idea, by giving a “defense of custom,” as Paine put it. It should be noted, however, that the same held true for a different president — Richard Nixon. At the onset of investigations, a majority of Americans felt it was a waste of time. As they learned more about his actions as president, the public (including a significant number of Republicans) became more supportive of his ouster. <br class="br">1770s, Common Sense (1776) <br class="br">Source: Chris Walker (September 25, 2019): A Look Back At Thomas Paine, And Why Impeachment Makes ‘Common’ Sense (Even If You Think It’s A Losing Cause) [Opinion]. In: HillReporter.com. Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20190929202745/https://hillreporter.com/a-look-back-paine-and-why-impeachment-makes-sense-even-if-you-think-its-a-losing-cause-opinion-46555 from the original https://hillreporter.com/a-look-back-paine-and-why-impeachment-makes-sense-even-if-you-think-its-a-losing-cause-opinion-46555 on September 29, 2019.

How reliable is your memory? https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory?language=en#t-320055 June 2013

&lt;Small&gt; From The Introduction https://eckharttolle.com/oneness-with-all-life-excerpt/&lt;/small&gt; <br class="br">Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth (2008)

Solaris (1961), Ch. 6: "The Little Apocrypha", p. 72
Solaris (1961)

1996