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“Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.”

Quote by Margaret Mahy

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Margaret Mahy was a renowned New Zealand children's author, known for her rich imagination and profound emotional depth in her works. Born on March 21, 1936, she passed away on July 23, 2012. Her writing career spanned over half a century, bringing joy to children around the world. more

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“Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest.”

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“Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time.”

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“If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.”

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“There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.”

Book:The Catalogue of the Universe

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“From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.”

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“Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.”

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“The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.”

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Book:I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane

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“A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.”

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“Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.”

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“But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.”

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