Óli Gneisti (English)Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
> ‘You’re saying,’ he said, weighing each word, ‘that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle.’
Mort - Terry Pratchett
> In fact it really was amazing what could be done with several ounces of heavy metal, some irritated molluscs, a few dead rodents and a lot of thread wound out of insects’ bottoms. The dress wasn’t so much worn as occupied[.]
From: Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
> ... although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy.
Fom Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses - Chris Nashawaty
> JOHN SAYLES: “Roger [Corman] hired more female directors than anybody else. It wasn’t because he was a dyed-in-the-wool feminist. It was just if they had talent and they were cheap, let’s try ’em!”
From Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses - Chris Nashawaty
> [Roger Corman] did that first for [Ingmar Bergman's] Cries and Whispers. He dubbed the picture, and he played it in drive-ins.
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A Hat Full of Sky - Terry Pratchett
> ‘Here is a story to believe,’ she said. ‘Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between. This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws! In my human mouth I have the pointy teeth of a wolf and the chisel teeth of a rabbit and the grinding teeth of a cow! Our blood is as salty as the sea we used to live in! When we’re frightened the hair on our skins stands up, just like it did when we had fur. We are history! Everything we’ve ever been on the way to becoming us, we still are. Would you like the rest of the story?’
Murderbot -Martha Wells
> I can’t handle that right now so I’m just going to archive it for later.
Murderbot - Martha Wells
> I will never figure out how humans decide who gets to sit where and do what, it’s never the same.
Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See - Jonathan Rosenbaum
> Ebert reviews a good many film books, and to my knowledge Siskel never did; if he ever read any books about film on his own, it would have surprised me.
The Last King of Osten Ard - #TadWilliams
> Likimeya and I did not talk very often, but when we did our conversations often began like this, with her explaining things to me as though I were witless. To be fair, she spoke this way to most of her elders.