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“Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.”
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“A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.”
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“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?”
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Basingstoke Sci-Fi & Fantasy Reading Group
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This is a group for the Basingstoke Sci-Fi & Fantasy reading group that meets at Waterstone's on the second Thursday of every month at 6:30pm. If you ...more
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