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Diana Wynne Jones has 143 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have…
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Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about…
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in…
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just…
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It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children…
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Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their…
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I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are…
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It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life,…
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A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.
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You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be…
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An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me,…
— Anatole France
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A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people,…
— James Cameron
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Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his…
— Samuel Johnson
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You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry…
— Chin-Ning Chu
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you…
— Jonathan Swift
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truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that…
— Herman Melville
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MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you
— Idries Shah
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You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.
— Kenneth Oppel
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Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett…
— Margaret Mitchell
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Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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