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What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Words are immortal - Elinor
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Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.
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The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.
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You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.
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You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.
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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
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She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.
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Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.
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Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
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Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
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When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
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We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.
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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
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When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.
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The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.
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And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
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Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
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