Vanity Fair
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Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
“You think that I am angry, but I am not. You think I do not know why you have done what you have done, but I do. You think you have put all your heart into that writing and that every one in England now understands you. What do they understand? Nothing. I understood you before you wrote a word. What you wrote, you wrote for me. For me alone.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Writing isn’t a source of pain. It’s psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.”
― Odd Thomas
― Odd Thomas
“He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.”
― Dune
― Dune
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