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Book cover for Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch, #8)

Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch, #8) by Terry Pratchett

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‘How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be and, the and I and it, and so on, and there’s a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has already been done for you.’

Tress of the Emerald Sea

by Brandon Sanderson

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“There was a crowd of dwarfs milling around outside the yard. They did not look belligerent. That is to say, any more than a species by custom and practice, wear a big heavy heavy helmet, mail, iron boots, and carry an ax all the time can fail to look belligerent.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

tags: fantasy, humor

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“What you wind up regretting aren’t the things you do, it’s what you don’t do that you will never forgive yourself for.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

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“You'll never understand the way the worlds really work until you surround yourself with people from all sorts of weird backgrounds.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 6

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“you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. If you could not accept yourself, you would be reviled and cast out, adrift in the world.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

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“But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world - by a teacher, a writer, anyone - is a judgement. The judgement that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.”
― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

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