"Wikipedia, eh? Must be accurate then."
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"No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire."
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"Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough."
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"People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with."
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"It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death."
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"I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'."
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"You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all."
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"Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was played."
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"Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card."
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"Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best of my recollection, I became a reader at the age of 10 and have never stopped. Like many authors, I read all sorts of books all the time, and it is amazing how the mind fills up."
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"My programming language was solder."
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"History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time."
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"People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances."
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"Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery."
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"They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged."
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"One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble."
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"Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me."
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"Jesus won't cut you off before you're through With him you won't never get a crossed line, And when your bill comes it'll all be properly itemised He's the telephone repairman on the switchboard of my life. The phone line to the saviour's always free of interference He's in at any hour, day or night And when you call J-E-S-U-S you always call toll-free He's the telephone repairman on the switchboard of my life."
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"… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood."
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"Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house."
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