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Diana Wynne Jones

"I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it."

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"I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I have an old brain but a terrific memory."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I need to remember what they look like. I try to hold them still behind my eyes, their faces, like pictures in an album. But they won't stay still for me, they move, there's a smile and it's gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper's burning, blackness eats them. A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces. But they fade, though I stretch out my arms towards them, they slip away from me, ghosts at daybreak. Back to wherever they are. Stay with me, I want to say. But they won't."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"By remembering it too often I have blurred the memory itself."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Create memories every day. Enjoy every moment every way."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"There is nothing like an odor to stir memories."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"An angel has no memory."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it."

Memory

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Diana Wynne Jones
"Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything."

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