"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it."
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"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
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"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."
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"Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains."
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"Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have."
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"He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail."
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"...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?"
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"The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time."
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"Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?"
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"Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you."
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"If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love."
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"Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain."
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"I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives."
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"I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death."
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"Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice."
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"She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place."
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"Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever."
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"I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing."
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"Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone."
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"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
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