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- People don't change just because you know more about them.
- 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…
- Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles…
- Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.
- I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
- The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese…
- Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--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…
- 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…
- I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
- I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large…
- For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
- This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane;…
- 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…
- Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right.…
- Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
- Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle