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“I've been going insane reading my students' papers. Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles."
~ Ithana Aaronson”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

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“Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer

tags: quark, quarkbeast, velciraptor

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“Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer

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“Every real story is a never ending story.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

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“The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

tags: brawl, father, magnitude, passerby, penderwicks, referee

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