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- There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was…
- Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you…
- Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
- How can it be?" she wondered. "I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns(....) But not to see them at all,…
- You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together,…
- Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will…
- Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly…
- He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them…
- I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never…
- You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change your heart into…
- As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in…
- All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement,…
- Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill…
- The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near... She was offering her open palm…
- The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.
- The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was…
- song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle