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"Faina nusijuokt balsu. Tokia kažkokia senobine šnekta čia parašyta, tokie lyg "dad" joke'ai, truputį mediniai, truputį kažką... "Pagaliau malūnininkas stvėrė savo lazdą ir ėmė juo talžyti lyg patrakęs. Ketveriukė šokinėjo kaip žirniai iš po spragilo, bet nieko nemate ir negalėjo nei apsiginti, nei pabėgti. Pliumpt! Pliumpt! - dunksėjo malūnininko lazda į jų nugaras<...>"" — 12 hours, 18 min ago
"Faina nusijuokt balsu. Tokia kažkokia senobine šnekta čia parašyta, tokie lyg "dad" joke'ai, truputį mediniai, truputį kažką... "Pagaliau malūnininkas stvėrė savo lazdą ir ėmė juo talžyti lyg patrakęs. Ketveriukė šokinėjo kaip žirniai iš po spragilo, bet nieko nemate ir negalėjo nei apsiginti, nei pabėgti. Pliumpt! Pliumpt! - dunksėjo malūnininko lazda į jų nugaras<...>"" — 12 hours, 18 min ago
“Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.”
― The Caves of Steel
― The Caves of Steel
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
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“I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was."
"Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly.
"It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.”
― It
"Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly.
"It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.”
― It
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
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“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
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