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  • #1
    Greg Egan
    “A sei anni i miei genitori mi raccontarono che dentro il mio cranio c’era una gemma piccola e scura, che imparava a essere me.
    Microscopici ragni avevano tessuto una ragnatela dorata nel mio cervello, perché l’istruttore contenuto nella gemma potesse udire il sussurro dei miei pensieri. La gemma origliava i miei sensi e interpretava i messaggi chimici trasportati dalla circolazione sanguigna: la gemma vedeva, udiva, odorava, gustava e toccava il mondo esattamente come me, mentre l’istruttore monitorava i suoi pensieri e li confrontava con i miei. Ogni qualvolta questi pensieri erano sbagliati, l’istruttore, più veloce del pensiero, dava una risistemata alla gemma, facendo una piccola modifica qua e là, apportando i cambiamenti necessari per correggere i suoi pensieri.
    Perché? Perché quando non avessi più potuto essere me, la gemma avrebbe potuto esserlo al posto mio.
    Io pensai: “Se ciò che sento mi fa sentire strano e mi dà le vertigini, cosa deve provare la gemma?”. Esattamente la stessa cosa, riflettei; non sa di essere la gemma e anch’essa si domanda cosa può provare la gemma, rispondendosi poi:
    “Esattamente la stessa cosa, non sa di essere la gemma, e anch’essa si domanda cosa può provare la gemma”.
    E anch’essa si chiede...
    (Ne ero certo, visto che io me lo domandavo.)
    ... anch’essa si interroga se è l’Io reale o se semplicemente è la gemma che sta imparando a essere me.

    Divenuto un dodicenne pieno di superbia e di scherno, mi presi gioco di quelle preoccupazioni infantili. Tutti avevano la gemma, salvo i membri di oscure sette religiose, e sprecare tempo su una banalità simile mi appariva una perdita di tempo. La gemma era la gemma, un fatto universale della vita, una cosa comune come una cacca. Io e i miei amici vi costruivamo battute stupide, come facevamo con le cose del sesso, per provare a noi stessi quanto eravamo saputi in quel campo.
    In realtà, però, non eravamo saputi e imperturbabili come pretendevamo di essere. Un giorno, mentre giocavamo nel parco chiacchierando del più e del meno, uno della banda, il suo nome l’ho dimenticato, ma lo ricordo come una persona troppo intelligente per il suo stesso bene, si mise a domandare a ciascuno di noi: — Chi sei tu? La gemma o l’essere umano?
    Noi tutti rispondemmo indignati, senza esitare: — L’essere umano!
    Quando tutti ebbero risposto, lui rise e affermò: — Bene, io no. Io sono la gemma. Siete degli stronzi perdenti e mangerete merda, perché voi tutti finirete spazzati via nel cesso cosmico, ma io, io vivrò per sempre.
    Lo picchiammo fino a fargli colare il sangue dal naso.

    Dal racconto Imparare a essere me.”
    Greg Egan, Axiomatic

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “Detention, Saturday night, my office,” said Snape. “I do not take cheek from anyone, Potter . . . not even ‘the Chosen One.’
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #5
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #8
    J.K. Rowling
    “He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through."
    "How very rude of him."
    "I told him I was."
    Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady.
    "I am very touched, Harry.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #9
    J.K. Rowling
    “For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.”
    J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?'
    'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
    Stephen King

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley.
    George's fingers groped for the side of his head.
    "Saintlike," he murmured.
    "What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?"
    "Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #15
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #16
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #17
    J.K. Rowling
    “I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now—"
    "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year...”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #18
    Stephen  King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    Stephen King

  • #19
    Stephen  King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    Stephen King

  • #20
    Stephen  King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    Stephen King

  • #21
    Stephen  King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #22
    Stephen  King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #23
    Stephen  King
    “If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
    Stephen King

  • #24
    Stephen  King
    “A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
    Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

  • #25
    Stephen  King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

  • #26
    Stephen  King
    “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

  • #27
    Stephen  King
    “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
    Stephen King

  • #28
    Stephen  King
    “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
    Stephen King

  • #29
    Stephen  King
    “I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
    I aim with my eye.

    I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
    I shoot with my mind.

    I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
    I kill with my heart.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

  • #30
    Stephen  King
    “Nobody likes a clown at midnight”
    Stephen King



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