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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
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Every book should have a romance.
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The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
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The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
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Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.
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Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Class clowns become actors.
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford
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I wished I could share my own optimism.
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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?
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The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
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When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
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Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.
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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.
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