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Hilary McKay has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a…
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Don't call me darling. I'm a driving instructor!
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He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow…
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Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses…
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How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on…
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Once, when Tom was over here, to tease Rose, I asked him, "Before she was born, can you remember? Were things just…
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Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them…
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It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose,…
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Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, "Caddy, how far back can you remember?"…
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The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made…
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She'll soon forget." "Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole…
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She had to go," said Rose. "It was because of her angel," said Indigo. "And because of Granddad," added Caddy. "And because…
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He aint in your world you can take em off your atlas
— Drake
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
— Evelyn Waugh
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I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and…
— Andrzej Stasiuk
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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the…
— Ray Bradbury
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I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
— Clarence Thomas
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Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
— Nancy Mairs
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An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal…
— Murray Rothbard
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On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to…
— Dervla Murphy
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On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to…
— Dervla Murphy
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I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
— Ken Jennings
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There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a…
— Raj Patel
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