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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    M.L. Rio
    “He'd never been in my house and I was self-conscious, embarrassed by it. I was painfully aware of the fact that we didn't have enough books.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
    tags: language, power, profanity
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Yoko Ono
    “Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
    Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
    Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
    Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
    ― Yoko Ono
    tags: aging, autumn, fall, life, seasons, spring, summer, time, winter
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: hobbits
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
    tags: librarians
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    Terry Pratchett
    “People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: humor, librarians, libraries
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    Michael Moore
    “[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.”
    ― Michael Moore
    tags: liberals, librarians
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I renamed myself Ari.

    If I switched the letter, my name was Air.

    I thought it might be a great thing to be the air.

    I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    “My mother and father held hands. I wondered what that was like, to hold someone's hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone's hands.”
    ― Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
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    Seanan McGuire
    “Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, Indexing
    tags: fairy-tales, snow-white
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    William Ritter
    “That the battles are usually in her head does not lessen the bravery of it. The hardest ones always are.”
    ― William Ritter, Jackaby
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    Kathleen Rooney
    “If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.”
    ― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
    tags: loss, love
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    Kathleen Rooney
    “All my life, I have taken satisfaction in finishing things in order that I may experience a sense of achievement, regardless of whether the thing was really worth achieving. ... Death, I suspect, will likely be unsatisfying because I will no longer be present to feel the achievement thereof.”
    ― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
    tags: achievements, death, humor
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    Kathleen Rooney
    “But there was no way to know, and no way to go back. I could not revise. I had been who I had been, and so I largely remained.”
    ― Kathleen Rooney
    tags: lillian-boxfish
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    Margaret Atwood
    “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg
    tags: nature, spring
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    Omar El Akkad
    “Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.”
    ― Omar El Akkad, American War
    tags: rage, revenge, war
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    Scaachi Koul
    “I was never in danger. Nothing bad can happen to you if you're with your mom. Your mom can stop a bullet from lodging in your heart. She can prop you up when you can't. You mom is your blood and bone before your body even knows how to make any.”
    ― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
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    Scaachi Koul
    “Our story was delightful in its mundanity: we met, it worked, we're trying.”
    ― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
    tags: dating, love, trying
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    “Normal is an ilusion. What's normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
    ― Morticia Addams
    tags: creepy, morbid-humor, morbidity
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    Shirley Jackson
    “…Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: ghosts, haunting, spooky
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    “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
    We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
    ― Humbert Wolfe
    tags: autumn, seasons
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    Shirley Jackson
    “Around her the trees and wildflowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of growing and dying, turned toward her with attention, as though, dull and imperceptive as she was, it was still necessary for them to be gentle to a creation so unfortunate as not to be rooted in the ground, forced to go from one place to another, heart-breakingly mobile.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: nature, shirley-jackson, the-haunting-of-hill-house
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    Shirley Jackson
    “Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield it or we fight it, but we cannot meet at half way.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: fear, shirley-jackson, the-haunting-of-hill-house
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