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Tales from Watership Down (Watership Down, #2)

by Richard Adams

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Book cover for Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5) by Terry Pratchett

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There was no sound for a while but the roar of the wind and the sound of Nanny Ogg cutting bread, which she did with about as much efficiency as a man trying to chainsaw a mattress.

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“But by reading their books, I saw the other side of them - their humanity. Somehow I was sure that if people were willing to read each other, and see the light of other cultures, there would be no war on earth.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

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“I want to share all this in one place because if we talk, things get better, and more people we love might stick around so we can love them more.”
― John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression

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“I believe in every possible manifestation of spiritual strangeness. I believe in all possible escapes. The only thing I cannot endure is reality, whatever it may be. I believe that the writer is defined by the constant necessity of creating a world, to depart from this world. Literature is more concerned with misery than with happiness. Writing is directly related to frustration. It is a reflection of personal desperation. The writer is profoundly disgusted with his reality.”
― Paul Theroux, On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey – A Humanizing Exploration of the US-Mexico Border, Immigration Debate, and the Layered World of a Region in Conflict

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