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

“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

“Upon my word, there is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what every body does all the time.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“There was a little spritz of sequined leaves across the right shoulder because you didn’t seem to be able to get away with none. Apparently the majority of ball gowns were designed by five-year-old girls armed with glitter guns, but at least this one didn’t look entirely like an explosion in a Barbie factory.”
― Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10