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    Edward Gorey
    “I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.”
    ― Edward Gorey
    tags: boredom, ennui, life
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    Edward Gorey
    “When people are finding meaning in things - beware.”
    ― Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
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    Kenneth Grahame
    “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
    ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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    Kenneth Grahame
    “After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”
    ― Kenneth Grahame (Wind in the Willows), The Wind in the Willows
    tags: holiday, rest, vacation, wind-in-the-willows, work
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    Kenneth Grahame
    “Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wild World," said the Rat. "And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either, if you've got any sense at all.”
    ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
    tags: never-going, sense
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    Kenneth Grahame
    “I'm such a clever Toad.”
    ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    William Shakespeare
    “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: comedy, elizabethan, robin-goodfellow
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    William Shakespeare
    “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
    Are of imagination all compact:
    One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
    That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
    Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
    The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
    Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
    And as imagination bodies forth
    The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
    Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
    A local habitation and a name.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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    William Shakespeare
    “Up and down, up and down
    I will lead them up and down
    I am feared in field in town
    Goblin, lead them up and down”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: puck
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    William Shakespeare
    “The iron tongue of Midnight hath
    told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis
    almost fairy time. I fear we
    shall outstep the coming morn
    as much as we this night over-watch'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
    Go throw your TV set away,
    And in its place you can install
    A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
    Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    tags: books, humor, television
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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    Lewis Carroll
    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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    Mervyn Peake
    “This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
    tags: castle, description, gothic, owl, purple, ruin, tower
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    Mervyn Peake
    “Oh how I hate people!”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
    tags: people
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    Mervyn Peake
    “Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
    tags: death, fleet, funny, gormenghast, life, life-lessons, living, onomatopoeia, out-of-context, witty
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    Mervyn Peake
    “He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
    tags: happiness, independence, revolt
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    Mervyn Peake
    “Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
    tags: steerpike
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    Mervyn Peake
    “He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings.”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
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    Dodie Smith
    “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: first-sentence
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    Dodie Smith
    “I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: college, life, write
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    Dodie Smith
    “When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: imagination, reading, reading-books
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    Dodie Smith
    “Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: contemplation, luxury
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    Dodie Smith
    “Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?”
    ― Dodie Smith, The Town in Bloom
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    Dodie Smith
    “It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: moonlight, write
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    Dodie Smith
    “Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. ”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: ruthless, truth
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  • #31
    Dodie Smith
    “I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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