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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very…
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She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea…
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They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't…
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Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such…
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Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
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Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls'…
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The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
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I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
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In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
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Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for…
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I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if…
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I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about…
— Vera Brittain
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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…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to…
— Kerry Greenwood
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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a…
— Mark Twain
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
— Robert Frost
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I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if…
— Kate Atkinson
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The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
— Marilynne Robinson
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People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old…
— John Fowles
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But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.
— Jose Saramago
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