“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life - and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
- Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing.
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- Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing.
#B1 #quotes #english #deankoontz
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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
- Isaac Asimov.
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#isaacasimov
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- Isaac Asimov.
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#isaacasimov
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
- Oscar Wilde.
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#oscarwilde
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- Oscar Wilde.
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#oscarwilde
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How A Teenage Girl Became the Mother of Horror
Born on a dark and stormy night, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus is a true masterpiece of terror that began as a fireside ghost story and grew into a worldwide phenomenon.
The story took shape during the year without a summer, as 1816 came to be known. The 1815 eruption of the Mount Tambora volcano on the island of Sumbawa had released vast amounts ash, rock, and sulfuric dust into the air, which dramatically lowered temperatures across many areas of the globe the following year.
The outdoor activities they had been eagerly anticipating were washed out by the constant torrential cloudbursts in Switzerland that year. “It proved a wet, ungenial summer,” Mary wrote years later, “and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.”
Lord Byron suggested that each member of the party write a horror story. Out of this parlor game came a new kind of tale, Mary Shelley’s terrifying novel, Frankenstein.
#maryshelley
Born on a dark and stormy night, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus is a true masterpiece of terror that began as a fireside ghost story and grew into a worldwide phenomenon.
The story took shape during the year without a summer, as 1816 came to be known. The 1815 eruption of the Mount Tambora volcano on the island of Sumbawa had released vast amounts ash, rock, and sulfuric dust into the air, which dramatically lowered temperatures across many areas of the globe the following year.
The outdoor activities they had been eagerly anticipating were washed out by the constant torrential cloudbursts in Switzerland that year. “It proved a wet, ungenial summer,” Mary wrote years later, “and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.”
Lord Byron suggested that each member of the party write a horror story. Out of this parlor game came a new kind of tale, Mary Shelley’s terrifying novel, Frankenstein.
#maryshelley
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“You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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#jamesjoyce
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- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Translation
#jamesjoyce
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“I didn’t want to distract the people who were saving my life, so I muted my mic and screamed like a little girl. It’s true, you know. In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl.”
- Andy Weir, The Martian.
Translation
#andyweir
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- Andy Weir, The Martian.
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#andyweir
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“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
- A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh.
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- A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh.
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“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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#fscottfitzgerald
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“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected."
- Charles Dickens, Works of Charles Dickens.
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#charlesdickens
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- Charles Dickens, Works of Charles Dickens.
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#charlesdickens
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“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
- Mark Twain.
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#marktwain
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- Mark Twain.
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#marktwain
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“Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you - except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.
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#aynrand
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- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.
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#aynrand
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
- Ernest Hemingway.
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#ernesthemingway
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- Ernest Hemingway.
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#ernesthemingway
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“You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.”
- Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio.
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#sherwoodanderson
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- Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio.
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#sherwoodanderson
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“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”
- Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth.
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#edithwharton
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- Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth.
Translation
#edithwharton
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“It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”
- Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit.
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#waltertevis
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- Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit.
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#waltertevis
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“Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.”
- Ray Bradbury.
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#raybradbury
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- Ray Bradbury.
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#raybradbury
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“Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.”
- Robert Collier.
Translation
#robertcollier
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- Robert Collier.
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#robertcollier
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“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden.
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#johnsteinbeck
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- John Steinbeck, East of Eden.
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#johnsteinbeck
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JK Rowling says she was bullied off a Harry Potter forum she joined under a pseudonym.
JK Rowling has said she was bullied off a Harry Potter forum by fans who had no idea who she really was.
The author of the wizarding franchise entered a chatroom at the turn of the millenium anonymously while she was writing the fourth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Speaking on the podcast The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, she said: “I chose a random name that was not a Potter related name, as I was almost scared that I would somehow self-reveal.”
Rowling said she shared a “very bland” opinion about Harry Potter and “got rounded on by users who told me in no uncertain terms to get out”.
The author said she was told that she wasn’t “familiar in that room, and that I’m clearly an idiot who doesn’t know anything”.
Translation
#jkrowling
JK Rowling has said she was bullied off a Harry Potter forum by fans who had no idea who she really was.
The author of the wizarding franchise entered a chatroom at the turn of the millenium anonymously while she was writing the fourth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Speaking on the podcast The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, she said: “I chose a random name that was not a Potter related name, as I was almost scared that I would somehow self-reveal.”
Rowling said she shared a “very bland” opinion about Harry Potter and “got rounded on by users who told me in no uncertain terms to get out”.
The author said she was told that she wasn’t “familiar in that room, and that I’m clearly an idiot who doesn’t know anything”.
Translation
#jkrowling
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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
- Maya Angelou.
Translation
#mayaangelou
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- Maya Angelou.
Translation
#mayaangelou
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