"You know, class is like magic. There's nothing……" — Jo Walton
"You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen."
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23 Quotes by Jo Walton
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The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole…
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If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
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I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but…
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I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I…
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There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall…
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It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
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If you love books enough, books will love you back.
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There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.
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Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to…
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I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half…
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One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and…
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Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but…
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
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