"Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and thereâ€™s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor."

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China Mieville

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“If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.”
“Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.”
“If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.”

Source : David Elkind (2009). “The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition”, p.26, Da Capo Press
“People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.”
“The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.”
“When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.”
“How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.”

Source : Bill W. (1976). “Alcoholics Anonymous: the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism”
“I'm only a human being.”

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