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I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book.…
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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was…
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There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.
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Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the…
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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.
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Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war…
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A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to…
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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like…
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are…
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.
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When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had…
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A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
— Alan Perlis
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