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When have you looked?' said S...

When have you looked?' said Sophie. 'Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches', Howl croaked.

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You've probably all had those ...

You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-

Diana Wynne Jones 154 quotes

All she heard next of the stra...

All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it.

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You've no right to walk into p...

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

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As often happened, Charmain be...

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

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Sophie said a bad word. In the...

Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place. Naughty-naughty' Twinkle said. Oh shut up!' Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. 'Why don't you grow up?

Diana Wynne Jones 154 quotes

All these things that crib and...

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

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Controller Borasus sighed with...

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

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Mr. Stock came out of the comp...

Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy

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But whoever heard of enchanted...

But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?

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But I do think that when peopl...

But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

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I seem to have excalibured thi...

I seem to have excalibured this knife.

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Wizard Howl,' said Wizard Sul...

Wizard Howl,' said Wizard Suliman. 'I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.

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I am a total zombie just after...

I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.

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Happiness isn't a thing. You c...

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

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One person ought to treat anot...

One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.

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There were horrendous, dramati...

There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slimeЂ'oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping on his knees and hands, trickling in glops down his legs, and dripping off the stool in sticky strands. It was in oozing ponds and crawling pools over most of the floor. Long fingers of it had crept into the hearth. It smelled vile.

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It's a lucky child that knows ...

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

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Imagination doesn't just mean ...

Imagination doesn't just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don't, and never would, write Real Books.

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It does not seem to me that I ...

It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....