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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
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