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The Lord Sorcier (Regency Faerie Tales, #0.5)

by Olivia Atwater (Goodreads Author)

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The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People

by Michael Wood

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Alasse’s Quotes

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

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“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
― George Orwell

tags: courage, truth

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“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
― Philip Roth

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“His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

tags: ignorance

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“Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”
― W. B. Yeats

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