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"The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first."
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional."
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"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."
"I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job."
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"Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today."
"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them."
"We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy."
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"Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science."
"The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice."
"If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy."
"It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer."
"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
"If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?"
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