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- It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I…
- By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of…
- Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
- And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot…
- Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them.…
- What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.
- They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
- I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As…
- The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into…
- The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you…
- Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no…
- No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about…
- There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that.…
- I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which…
- I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for…
- One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested…
- The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if…
- You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did…
- ...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious…
- Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of…
- A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no…
- They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then…
- Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves…
- She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that…
- Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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