"The world is always ending, for someone."
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"Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort."
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"I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny."
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"There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous."
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"Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around."
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"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"
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"Black as night, sweet as sin."
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"And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear."
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"We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness."
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"I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me."
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"But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it." "Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies." Coraline shivered."
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""Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same.""
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"She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said. "Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats." Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?"
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"Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner."
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"The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly."
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"Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see."
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"When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do."
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"Whenever it rains you will think of her."
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"I'm a fairly undisciplined writer."
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"Also, I've already won all the awards."
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