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“What are you?" I rasped. It smiled. "Whatever scares you.”

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Kim Harrison, born in 1966, is a renowned science fiction author from the United States. Her works are highly praised by readers and critics for their unique worldviews and profound thematic explorations. more

“Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.”

Thinking Knows Sometimes Hard Fall Given Christ Hours Watches Knowing Comedy Missing Jokes Rain Window Heavy London Staring Flats Nerves Not Knowing Tire Exhaustion

Author:Martin Amis

“Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.”

Food Murder Meat Delicious

Author:John Lydon

“You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Goal Challenges Hero Ordinary Accomplish Great Things Motivated Chaps

Author:Edmund Hillary

“I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.”

Believe Looks Children Character Mother I Believe Fit Like A Mother

Author:Margery Allingham

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

Mean Said Different Use Masters Mathematical Tone Different Things Wonderland Alice In Wonderland Alice Through The Looking Glass Humpty Dumpty

Author:Lewis Carroll

“Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.”

People Art Artist Creativity Creative Objects Roots Method Impulse Deprived Select Spontaneity

Book:Creative America

Source: Creative America

“The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.”

World Believe May Doe Might Logic Strikes Monsters Superiors Fantastic Inclination Gullibility Bigfoot Loch Ness Monster

Author:Chris Van Allsburg

“It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.”

Play Hands Faces Sound Judgment Hundred Dare Nine Fifty Forty Chips Sound Judgment

Book:Twain: Wit and Wisecracks

Source: Twain: Wit and Wisecracks

“It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”

Ifs World Soul Whole Hands Might Eye Night Wish Easy Dark Company Wall Asking Rounds Staring Sat Hopeful Nothingness Daytime Round World

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs.”

Ifs Wisdom Light Darkness Bird Folly Waking Light And Darkness

Author:Thomas Merton

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