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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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Whenever your well-being feels at risk around certain people, make a tactful and swift exit.
— Judith Orloff
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I'm honest. I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have…
— Sherilyn Fenn
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Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do…
— Frank Medlicott
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Empathically accurate perceivers are those who are consistently good at 'reading' other people's thoughts and feelings. All else being equal, they are…
— William Ickes
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Sometimes I can be tactful and sometimes not. It all depends on the mood I'm in.
— Melanie Brown
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Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
— Earl Tupper
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Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
— Cecil Beaton
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I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much…
— Tobias Wolff
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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
— Zaha Hadid
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Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming…
— David Letterman
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Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov!
— Steve Fowler
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The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
— James Cash Penney
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