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    C.S. Lewis
    “You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
    tags: inspirational
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: censorship
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Seven, Brienne thought again, despairing. She had no chance against seven, she knew. No chance, and no choice.
    She stepped out into the rain, Oathkeeper in hand.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked...”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: the-master-and-margarita
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Even nothing cannot last forever.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
    tags: books, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
    Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: alcohol, death, drinking, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: magic, technology
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
    tags: cruelty, evil, humanity, kindness
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: death, immortality, remembrance
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
    But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: luck, magic, science
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: fantasy
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: humor, moist-von-lipwig
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    Terry Pratchett
    “YOU FEAR TO DIE?
    "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    George R.R. Martin
    “That’s no law, just a sword. Happens I got one too.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: a-song-of-ice-and-fire, arya-stark, asoiaf, game-of-thrones, got
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    Terry Pratchett
    “What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: humor
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Margaret Atwood
    “She’s just jealous, people say, as if jealousy is something minor. But it’s not, it’s the worst, it’s the worst feeling there is—incoherent and confused and shameful, and at the same time self-righteous and focused and hard as glass, like the view through a telescope. A feeling of total concentration, but total powerlessness. Which must be why it inspires so much murder: killing is the ultimate control.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
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    Margaret Atwood
    “because God could see everything you did and also thought and most of these things annoyed him.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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    Margaret Atwood
    “History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events and say that after them things were never the same again.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
    tags: evolution-of-thought, history, womens-history
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