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- Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed…
- If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that…
- Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where…
- I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to…
- I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the…
- And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they…
- He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory…
- People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because…
- I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this…
- And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what…
- At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations…
- ..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars,…
- People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people…
- When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman