"I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will."

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Source : "Terry Deary: The man behind the Horrible Histories". Interview with Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2012.

Terry Deary

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“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”

Source : "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" by Alexander Ireland, (p. 94), 1884.
“Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.”
“It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.”
“I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life surrounded by friends and children and fertile fields of his own designing. I tihnk he wanted to die believing he had been in one the creation of a good sweet place. Those old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a far away place where decent people could escape the wreckage of the old world and start over. Come to me, the dream whispers, and you can have one more chance.”
“I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces?”
“The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?”
“If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.”
“My Chicken can do a special trick! "And what is that?" She can lay an egg! "And what's so special about THAT?!" Well, Can YOU lay an egg?”

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