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"Curiosity is a descending stair that leads to only who-knows-where."
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"Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries."

"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."

"I'm very curious why people in school all the time from 2-3 class up to the last 6-7 they talk about football. What can be said??Sharing about a team few sentences, who has won, and rought said that's all. But why people stretch it like a Turkish delight with the same end???"

"A mind filled with questions is better than a mind full of answers."

"We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts."

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

"Why...do you find this...distracting?"

"It is better to wonder than worry."
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"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."

"I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics."

"I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats."

"Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out."

"For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas."

"What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them-to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else."

"She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe."

"I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecting thoughts into people's heads from a distance--I didn't know whether I actually liked him or he was just suggesting I like him, which was both creepy and unethical. In fact, the whole Remote Suggestion or "seeding" idea had been banned once it was discovered to be the key ingredient in promoting talent less boy bands, which had until then been something of a mystery."
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