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Men like Corporal Nobbs can be found in every armed force.  Although their grasp of the minutiae of the Regulations is usually encyclopedic, they take good care never to be promoted beyond, perhaps, corporal.  He tended to speak out of the corner of his mouth.  He smoked incessantly but the weird thing, Carrot noticed, was that any cigarette smoked by Nobby became a dog-end almost instantly but remained a dog-end indefinitely or until lodged behind his ear, which was a sort of nicotine Elephant’s Graveyard.  On the rare occasions he took one out of his mouth he held it cupped in his hand.

He was a small, bandy-legged man, with a certain resemblance to a chimpanzee who never got invited to tea parties.  His age was indeterminate.  But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

–Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!” (illustration by Paul Kidby taken from the 2021 Dunmanifestin edition)

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"All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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Devin Elle Kurtz on Instagram

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"Her mother said fairy tales didn't have anything to do with the world, but Ofelia knew better. They had taught her everything about it."

-Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth

-Art

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"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."

- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

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"If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else."

-Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

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"All is death, woman. All is pain. Love breeds loss. Isolation breeds resentment. No matter which way we turn, we are beaten. Our only true inheritance is death. And our only legacy, dust."

The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

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"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

- The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

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29.01.17

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.” ― Susan Cain, Quiet

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“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly,”  

 — Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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http://www.livingvintageco.com/2016/03/nest-robins-hair-10-of-52/

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Latest book haul from local bookstore.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov. via twitter