"I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?"

-- Lev Grossman

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“My videos are coming from the perspective of someone who bought the device, used it and is giving impressions on the actual usage. Sometimes 2 different behind-the-scenes engienering decisions will yield the same user experience, in which case I won't even mention it.”
“I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.”
“A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.”

Source : M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.768, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.”
“I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.”
“Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We donâ€™t value architecture, we donâ€™t take it seriously, we donâ€™t want to pay for it and the architect isnâ€™t trusted.”
“I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.”
“I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.”

Source : Jean Plaidy (2009). “Victoria Victorious: The Story of Queen Victoria”, p.212, Broadway Books

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