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"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."
"CALVIN:Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien."
"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."
"And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing."
"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."
"Did you wake him?""If I say yes, will you spank me?"Syn rolled his eyes. "You're horrible, Mari."
"When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying."
"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."
"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
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"That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart."
"He stared at his feet. "I'm still very ignorant, he said, "but at least I'm ignorant about really important things."
"Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle."
"Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time."
"Why are our people going out there, said Mr. Boggis of the Thieves' Guild.Because they are showing a brisk pioneering spirit and seeking wealth and additional wealth I na new land, said Lord Vetinari."What's in it for the Klatchians? said Lord Downey."Oh, they've gone out there because they are a bunch of unprincipled opportunists always ready to grab something for northern, said Lord Vetinari."A mastery summation, if I may say so, my lord, said Mr. Burleigh. The Patrician looked down again at his notes. "Oh, I do beg your pardon, I seem to have read those last to sentences in the wrong order."
"A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts that made her want to take our her brain and wash it."
"Mums are mums, lance-constable. They don't like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on."
"And Dil was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed anymore."
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