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“Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

“I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Hero

“Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless : Tales of Transgression

“Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“there’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“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