"For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate."

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Source : Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen”, p.194, Hot Key Books

Garth Nix

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“The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. â€¦ The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.”
“The benefits and $174,000 per year salary that we get, we earn. It's not elaborate, it's just a bunch of poppycock that a lot of people have spread around trying to get us to hate our own government and our government representatives.”
“I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.”
“I think I write a lot, but it's always a continuous stream of consciousness, I guess. It's a mechanic. It's a discipline and it's a way to have supplies for the songs to come.”
“A British villain never loses their sense of humour.”
“I don't think anyone knows anything and I don't trust people who say that they do. Don't give me a plan, give me action.”
“First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.”
“The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.”

Source : William Plomer (1973). “Collected poems”

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