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Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

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“Kurt smiled a shy smile. "You're just trying to cheer me up," he said.

"Course I am," Andy said. "You deserve to be full of cheer.”
― Cory Doctorow

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“I believe,' said Marcus Furius, 'that an order of male virgins who never see the light of day would be ideal for the operation of a computing machine such as this.”
― M.T. Anderson

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“To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination

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“An adult mind that is brimming with chunks is a powerful engine of reason, but it comes with a cost: a failure to communicate with other minds that have not mastered the same chunks.”
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

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“The American punctuation rule sticks in the craw of every computer scientist, logician, and linguist, because any ordering of typographical delimiters that fails to reflect the logical nesting of the content makes a shambles of their work.”
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

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