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“The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.”
― The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
― The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
“If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.”
― Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures
― Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures
“Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.”
― The City of Dreaming Books
― The City of Dreaming Books
“I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally dissolved the writer’s block that had inhibited the author from starting work. I have since used it whenever I myself have been gripped by fear of the blank sheet in front of me. It is infallible, and its effect is always the same: the knot unravels and a stream of words gushes out on to the virgin paper. It acts like a magic spell and I sometimes fancy it really is one. But, even if it isn’t the work of a sorcerer, it is certainly the most brilliant sentence any writer has ever devised. It runs: ‘This is where my story begins.’”
― The City of Dreaming Books
― The City of Dreaming Books
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that's all.”
― The City of Dreaming Books
― The City of Dreaming Books
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