Quotes about wynne, page 3
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
quote by Diana Wynne Jones
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Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.
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The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.
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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
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I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true.
quote by Diana Wynne Jones
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And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
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I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.
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Flailing Across the Days
Flailing across the days
it is fulfilment of
anaesthetic isolation
to be unknown in this
populous desert
and throbbing clarity
of loneliness
to be remembered by one
I love.
Feb 1972
poem by Jonathan Wynne Evans
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This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.
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Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.
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