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Portrait of Nancy Farmer

Nancy Farmer

(1941) Writer United States

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Nancy Farmer is a writer from the United States, best known for The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm: a novel.

Quick Facts About Nancy Farmer

Born: July 9, 1941
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm: a novel
Known for: A Girl Named Disaster, The House of the Scorpion, The Ear, the Eye and the Arm

About Nancy Farmer

Nancy Farmer is an American writer of children's and young adult books and science fiction. She has written three Newbery Honor books and won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The House of the Scorpion, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2002.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Quotes by Nancy Farmer · Page 2

“You must not be hurt by other people's ignorance.”

Ignorance

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“Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain…

Bubonic plague

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“Matt had to swallow hard to keep tears from forming. Fidelito had called him brother!”

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“Just say no to pillaging.”

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“She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin…

Nancy-farmer

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“The secret of successful education is finding out how a particular person learns.”

Education

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“It’s strange. He knows more about science than we do, and he’s a hundred years in the past. He says we depend…

Computers

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Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the…

Air

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The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

Life

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“I'd guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved. But don't get a swelled head…

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If I had a soul, I’d probably wind up in hell anyway.

Hell

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“Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!”

Action

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“Knowledge is a house that must be built from the ground up. We know how to make the roof. The information is…

Knowledge

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“I remember too much. But don't worry, Don Sombra. People like me have an infinite ability to forgive themselves.”

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“When u are small, u can choose which way to grow. If you are kind and decent, you grow into a kind…

Decent man

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Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

Crave

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“Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside…

Death

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“I remembered what Olaf always said: You must never give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what…

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Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.

Alliances

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Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.

Angel

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That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

Kind

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“I don't mind," he whispered. "If I had a soul, I'd probably wind up in hell anyway.”

Psychology

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Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off…

Adventure

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“He knows more about science than we do, and he's a hundred years in the past. He says we depend too much…

Computers

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“They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds…

Nature

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