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Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.

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• Humor

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

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• Inspirational

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

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• Life

I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.

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• Funny

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

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• Writing

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

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• Life

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

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• Truth

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

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• Inspirational

Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken...Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure...Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken.

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• Love

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

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• Humor

. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.

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• Books

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.

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• Books

Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was.

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• Love

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

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• Books

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

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• Inspirational

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

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• Humor

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

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• Writing

So many things to see, people to do.

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• Humor

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

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• Time

You have a very open relationship with your fans. Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers.

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• Humor

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

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• Writing

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

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• Humor

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

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• Love

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

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• Books

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

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• Writing

When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

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• Writing

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

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• Inspirational

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

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• Books

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

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• Life