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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Play is the highest form of research.”
― Albert Einstein

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“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

“Maar haat is geen mening! Het is een emotie, zoals woede, liefde en verdriet. Als mijn computer crasht en ik geef hem gefrustreerd een oplawaai, dan uit ik een emotie, maar je kunt het moeilijk als een mening omschrijven.”
― Johan Vandevelde, Apollo

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
― Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

“Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.”
― Terry Pratchett

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci