"I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book."

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"I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book."

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"There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Curiosity, Imagination, Knowledge, Study

"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Curiosity, Desire, Seeking, Knowledge, Investigation

"Do not just accept anything without questioning."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Curiosity, Accept, Question, Life, Inquire

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"When you're an astronomer, you always have stars in your eyes."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Curiosity, Astronomy, Stars, Eye, Wonder

"What are your interests?""Your son in my room," I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon," I said. "Astronomy."

David Levithan, American Author

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"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."

Veronica Roth, American Author

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"The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky."

Belief

"Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles."

Devil

"As I looked down at him, as I saw his yellow hair pressed against my coat, I had a vision of him from long ago, that tall, stately gentleman in the swirling black cape, with his head thrown back, his rich, flawless voice singing the lilting air of the opera from which we'd only just come, his walking stick tapping the cobblestones in time with the music, his large, sparkling eye catching the young woman who stood by, enrapt, so that a smile spread over his face as the song died on his lips; and for one moment, that one moment when his eye met hers, all evil seemed obliterated in that flush of pleasure, that passion for merely being alive."

Memory

"Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely."

Culture

"Evil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary pain, suffering, or confusion. All evil comes from this. This is the root of all evil."

Morality

"I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is."

Perception

"And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars."

Unity

"And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me."

Support

"Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait."

Personality

"I am in love with you', I responded.He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.'It was my turn to laugh."

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