"Things we are accustomed to regard as myth……" — Diana Wynne Jones
"Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day."
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Diana Wynne Jones
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143 Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones
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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom…
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Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up…
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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,…
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It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your…
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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…
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe…
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to…
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
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It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't…
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Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
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One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not…
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on…
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It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to…
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up,…
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