Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream a hope, a woman,...
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway d...
Spoons are excellent. Sort of like forks, only not as stabby.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, chang...
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..
I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.
This fight was old, Shadow thought, older than even Mr. Alice knew, and he was thinking that even as the creature's talons raked his chest. It was the fight of man against monster, and it was old as t...
As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.
Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about e...
So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom, and if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.
It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect;
Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.
Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?Yes, someone did.A Man?A Man.Which means, said Bod, you're asking the wrong question.Silas raised an eyebrow. How so?Well, said Bod. If I go outsid...
Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.
فالكُتبُ مأمونة الجانب أكثر من الناس على كُل حال
Koty nie mają imion (...) Wy, ludzie, macie imiona. To dlatego, że nie wiecie, kim jesteście. My wiemy, kim jesteśmy, więc nie potrzebujemy imion.
[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. your library). Don't apologise to
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