"You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand."
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"Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps."
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"I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get the money then you didn't have anything. If I did the work I was proud of and I didn't get the money, at least I'd have the work."
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"One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one]."
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"It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real."
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"That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her."
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"If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run."
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"When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it."
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"Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!"
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"Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do."
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"And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that."
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"I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane."
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"October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content."
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"Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it."
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"He stared up at the stars, and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does."
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"I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too."
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"There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters."
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"He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once."
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"What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?"
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"It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him."
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