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I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.


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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.



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Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.



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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.



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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.



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Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words, ' Dumbledore went on, smiling.



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