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• I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have…
• Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about…
• One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
• There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in…
• It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
• Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just…
• It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children…
• Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their…
• I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are…
• It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life,…
• A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.
• You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be…

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