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“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

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“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

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“She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term I'll eat my spare tyre, rim and all.”
― Raymond Chandler

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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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“The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.”
― Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog

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