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- The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all…
- There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!
- And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels…
- One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents'…
- What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide…
- Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and…
- On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the…
- You going to be a scientist when you grow up?†That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.
- I’m just trying to wake up - I’m so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first.…
- Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and…
- But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have…
- Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
- We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't…
- And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today…
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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
- 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
- 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