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Well, now I've gone and done it. I’ve finished my first Terry Pratchett novel of what will likely someday be my beginning of enjoying his magnum opus. Effortlessly funny and predicated on human reactions to absolute chaos rather than praying that a f
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“I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you”
― The Chaos of Stars
― The Chaos of Stars
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted. If one’s own existence has no form, if its events do not come handily to mind and disclose their significance, we feel about ourselves as if we were reading a bad book.”
― Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
― Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
[Women Know Everything!]”
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[Women Know Everything!]”
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“One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.”
― Essays of E. B. White
― Essays of E. B. White
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