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The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

by Jonas Jonasson

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

by J.K. Rowling

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

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“Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.”
― Anne Holm, I Am David

tags: cruelty, people, problem, violence, wisdom

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“Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.”
― Anne Holm, I Am David

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“the prognosis for civilization’s survival is grim; as Einstein said after the Japan bombings: “I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

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“The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.”
― Philip Pullman, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

tags: fairy-tales, writing

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