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Diana Wynne Jones has 143 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in…
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just…
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It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children…
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Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their…
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I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are…
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It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life,…
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A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.
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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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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
— Elias Canetti
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Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining…
— Alain de Benoist
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I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite…
— Fritz Kreisler
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Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first…
— Ernest K. Gann
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It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama…
— Mitt Romney
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Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
— David Mitchell
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Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a…
— Unknown Author
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On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on…
— Stephen Kinzer
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If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
— Alan Gorrie
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