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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.

He who awaits much can expect little.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

History takes time. History makes memory.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.