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Yeah, Nah!: A Celebration of Life and the Words That Make Us Who We Are

by William McInnes

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The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

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“The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.”
― Philip Pullman, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

tags: fairy-tales, writing

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“And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.”
― Anne Holm, I Am David

tags: righteousness

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“He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject--what a burden his life was.”
― Philip Pullman, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

tags: difficulties, life, thinking, thoughts, troubles

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“Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.”
― Anne Holm, I Am David

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“And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice.”
― Anne Holm, I Am David

tags: sad

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