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- After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors…
- Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for…
- Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
- Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.
- True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...
- Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven…
- He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
- How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark…
- Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and…
- We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives…
- If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you…
- The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it…
- Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst…
- Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?'…
- Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun…
- Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have…
- Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable,…
- Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and…
- Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its…
- Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide