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“Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.”

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Jasper Fforde is a British novelist known for his unique sense of humor and his skillful blending of reality and fantasy. His works are characterized by complex narrative structures and rich imagination, which have won him a wide readership. more

“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

Way Feels Book Remember Reading Doors Movement Ought Twenties Library One Way Thirty Fifty Forty Trends Drag Bores Right Time Dropping Bookshops Bores You

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.”

Source: Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal

“Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.”

Want Humans Human Beings Poor Subjects Prejudice Profound Tendencies Superstitions Bias

Author:M. Scott Peck

“Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.”

World Two Born Wander Powerless Two Worlds Chartreuse

Author:Matthew Arnold

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”

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Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.”

Needs Writing Remember Inspiring Creative Needed Scenarios

Book:Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

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