Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
("The Eyre Affair")
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If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.Jasper Fforde
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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