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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you…

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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of…
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know.…
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's…
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for…
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk,…
She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of…
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to…
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch…
Of course I loved books more than people.
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure…

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The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care… — William S. Burroughs
It is in their eyes that their magic resides. — Arthur Symons
I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented… — Don Van Vliet
I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show… — Alfred Doblin
When did the business community in America become so sensitive? ... that we have to treat like some type of rare exotic… — Bill Maher
No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that… — Mario Testino
The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood. — Hermann Hesse
Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied… — Aaron Hill
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk,… — Diane Setterfield
We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic. — Libba Bray
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to… — Henry Miller
Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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