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“Jurassic Park—what the hell is the plot? Great dinosaurs.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“She wore a gown the colour of storms, shadows and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regret.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“America bought into Charles Dickens's Scrooge; they couldn't get past making the money. But it is about taking care of the family of Bob Cratchit. It is taking care of Tiny Tim that matters, that actually brings joy into your life. We forgot that. We were quite content to have our workers throw a piece of coal on the fire to stay warm. America did that. Charles Dickens gave us the warning, told us, 'Don't go down this road.' Think of the chains on Scrooge's business partner who died lonely, miserable; then your see him as a ghost with chains all around him. [...] -Bryan Davis”
― Sam Quinones

“Unfortunately, as [the french critic] Tzvetan Todorov reminds us, "The first, spontaneous reaction with regard to the stranger is to imagine him as inferior, since he is different from us".”
― Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures