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Mandy

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Mandy’s Quotes

“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

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“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

tags: foolish, foolish-people, ignorant, incuriosity, uninformed, uninformed-opinion

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“I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

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“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: happily-ever-after, love

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“If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."

[on Twitter, July 17, 2012]”
― Scott Lynch

tags: honesty, reviews, twitter

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