Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
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He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an appl...
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GARY OLDMAN Pumpkins, bonfire, nature walks, smores, autumn leaves, lattes, apple cider, hoodies, hot cocoa, boo...
LILY CHATTERJEE Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.
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My refusal to remove the book from the library was backed by a majority of the Board of Governors. I...
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DIANE ELSWICK A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leave...
ERIC SLOANE There lies a silence of the heart in the dance of colorful autumn leaves.
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EMERSON SPARTZ Before that there was no apple crisp market. Some firms had tried to break into it but they foundere...
FINLAY LOCKIE My earliest recollection of the Giants was on a Sunday morning in the autumn of 1925,
WELLINGTON MARA Anyway, the apple is essential. How come these hens don't get it? They go to church year after year,...
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I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I kn...
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The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distan...
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CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE This is one Golden Apple. But every single day, I see nine Golden Apples that sit in front of me.
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If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.
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It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.
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Autumn is a momentum of the natures golden beauty…, so the same it’s time to find your momentum ...
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The sun hitched up her trousers and soldiered on up into the sky. September squinted at it and wonde...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE John wasn't out there and wasn't awful, but he obviously wasn't as crisp as we had seen him and as c...
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When people pose the question, are you “coxom”, Tom Conrad? I like to pose a question back at th...
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Although a crisp texture is the single most prized quality in an apple - even more desirable than ta...
JOHN SEABROOK For Opening Day last year, almost 22,000 fans arrived at the ballpark within an hour of the first pi...
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and th...
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It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
JOHN CHEEVER I think I'll have complex feelings about [the last book], ... It's clearly the series that I will be...
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Another year is ending, but something is pending
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The way to final freedom is within thy self.
THE BOOK OF THE GOLDEN PRECEPTS A lot of things affect the game: the wind, the weather. The passing game isn't going to be as crisp ...
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Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
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The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
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In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work pi...
BRENE BROWN
I was suddenly arrested by what seemed to be an awful voice proclaiming the words, Eternity! Eternit...
STEPHEN GRELLET
Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type p...
TONY BENNETT
The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when...
MARY ANTIN Voters thought he's verbose, but he was crisp and on message -- a lot of people who hadn't focused o...
ALEC LAMIS
[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, o...
WALLACE STEGNER
Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
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George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a t...
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THEHEALTHFOODGURU Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own appl...
HERTA MüLLER The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps--does
anybody know where it was born? Yes, t...
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The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, ...
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
STEVE WOZNIAK
Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the
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Stay the course and keep building an integrated Apple ecosystem of iPhone + iPod + iMac + iTunes + A...
JOHN SCULLEY The problem has always been that Apple was first but other companies have been able to come in and u...
TED FRIEDMAN I know every morning how many drives were sold and our market position. In the past, we didn't have ...
ARIF SHAKEEL But that was just a minor correction on the heels of a huge bull market. The market's former success...
JEFFREY HIRSCH
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL You don't suddenly arrive at Success, it's a gradual feeling of enjoyment while on the journey to mo...
WILLIAM PAISLEY We actually got a lot of grief one year when we left out one of the Big Ten teams and took Miami (Oh...
CHARLES HARRIS
Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a sp...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds...
BETTE DAVIS
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a...
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Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a memb...
MIKE PENCE
As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't...
KEVIN JAMES When the first frosts come there, late September and October, it's absolutely tremendous. The larche...
KEV REYNOLDS When the first frosts come there, late September and October, it's absolutely tremendous, ... The la...
KEV REYNOLDS Inspiration in the wee hours of the morning is the golden ticket
VIRGINIA TOOLE Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
RéMY DE GOURMONT The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a g...
DAVID MITCHELL
He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as a...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping o...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. The year was 1882. The palace was the Luxembourg Palace: the ball, the Senat Bal, held at the beginn...
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Kill the spare.
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Harry took a deep, steadying breath and then said, “Okay, I can’t see the World Cup. Can I go no...
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A team of doctors had examined the bodies and had concluded that none of the Riddles had been poison...
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Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?"
"What's the point?" said Ron. "Yo...
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He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip...
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Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is ri...
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The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them.
“Wangoballwime?”
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But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.
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Giggling should be made illegal.
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OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!”
Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble st...
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There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.
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Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I me...
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The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate ...
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Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hint...
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Bubotubers,” Professor Sprout told them briskly. “They need squeezing. You will collect the pus ...
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Wow!” said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being ...
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Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to ...
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We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore
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I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” J.K. ROWLING
He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin...
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Completely forgetting about dinner, he walked slowly back up to Gryffindor tower. Cho's voice echoin...
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She’s a veela!” he said hoarsely to Harry.
“Of course she isn’t!” said Hermion...
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I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I wa...
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He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here lik...
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You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ...
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I hate being poor.
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As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
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Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don�...
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Play to your strengths."
"I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself....
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Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
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No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had e...
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She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
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You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since M...
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Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.
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Oh, shut up Weatherby.
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Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
“What �...
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He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "...
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Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sur...
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Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he bran...
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Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin...
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Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.
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Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid.
"You don't think anything ...
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Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being bor...
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Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick h...
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She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Pot...
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But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
“Hermione...
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I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memor...
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Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
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I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
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You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
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I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the sh...
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We're coming or you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and D...
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Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...."
"I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily eno...
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Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and wha...
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I love magic!
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Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn,...
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Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even t...
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He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...
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Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a so...
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I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book
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Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty.
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Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the p...
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Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Un...
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Why do you live?
Because I have something worth living for.
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I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.
. . . Gladys G...
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Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Ver...
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