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Them Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones
- Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to…
- Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they…
- You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find…
- It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little…
- This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have…
- Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.
- Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth…
- You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you…
- Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he…
- To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
- After that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding... we both tore Christopher's character to shreds. It was wonderful fun.... He drove everyone mad…
- But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.
- After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he…
- But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them
- This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future…
- This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway,…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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