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Charles Dickens
“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Edna O'Brien
“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories

Stella Gibbons
“She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.”
Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

Edna O'Brien
“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”
Edna O'Brien

J.K. Rowling
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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