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For the first time in her lif...

For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.

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It was amazing how many frien...

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

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They know that people need wi...

They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time.

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On the Disc the gods dealt se...

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

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Either dragons should exist c...

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

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I can't stand any music that ...

I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.

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SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST ...

SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.

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I had a deprived childhood, y...

I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.

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It's not Brits who think Amer...

It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.

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Granddad was superstitious ab...

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

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YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION...

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.

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Verence would rather cut his ...

Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.

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The Librarian was not familia...

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.

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It was a backwards memory of ...

It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.

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Tiffany knew what the problem...

Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation. Yes, he was surrounded by sweets. But the moment he took any sweet at all, said his sugar-addled brain, that meant he was not taking all the rest. And there were so many sweets he'd never be able to eat them all. It was too much to cope with. The only solution was to burst into tears.

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The point of page one is to m...

The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people think that the book was good value for money, you have achieved something, because if you haven't achieved those things you're not going to achieve the other thing.

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Granny sighed. "You have lear...

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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Tragic heroes always moan whe...

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals

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In fact, the mere act of open...

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat
could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

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The conversation of human bei...

The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.

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

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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....