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The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex ...more

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You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you...more

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He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subj...more

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When we were alive, they told us that when we died we'd go to heaven. And they said that heaven was a place of joy and glory and we would spend eterni...more

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We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

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One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, o...more

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You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

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When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

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Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. A...more

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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, an...more