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- Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But…
- The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed…
- Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of…
- Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly…
- They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die…
- You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.
- Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows…
- The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events…
- If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.
- [Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world…
- All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be…
- And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned,…
- Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of…
- ...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core…
- First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking…
- Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized…
- THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR…
- You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking…
- Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said Twoflower. 'And now…
- Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the…
- And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress…
- There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.
- There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the…
- I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it Cats, he said eventually,…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach