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“You can be whatever you want to in life, as long as you don't become a critic. Not of other people and not of yourself. It is so easy to be a critic, any coward can do that. But art does not need critics, art has enough enemies already. Art needs friends.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“But you said...
Oh I said a great many things.
All sorts of odd ideas crept into my brain.
Excess of grief may bring on quite as fine a bout of madness as an excess of anything else.
I was not quite myself for a time.
Truth to tell, I was a little wild.
But as you see that is all past now.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Oh I said a great many things.
All sorts of odd ideas crept into my brain.
Excess of grief may bring on quite as fine a bout of madness as an excess of anything else.
I was not quite myself for a time.
Truth to tell, I was a little wild.
But as you see that is all past now.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“It's like the Thing had sex with the fucking Blob...Father Kang Blurted.”
― Haunting Skies
― Haunting Skies
“Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
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