Shawn K
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“People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.”
― The Hearing Trumpet
― The Hearing Trumpet
“Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years.”
― Things That Are
― Things That Are
“If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.”
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“Entomologists use that word 'foul' often when referring to the flavor of a caterpillar. They are rarely more specific than 'foul' or 'tasty.' I expect that is because they are leaving the assessment up to birds, and birds have a very binary approach.”
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“Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!”
― Howl's Moving Castle
― Howl's Moving Castle
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