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Jo Walton – brytyjska poetka i pisarka fantasy oraz science fiction, od 2005 r. mieszka w Montrealu.

Otrzymała nagrodę im. Johna W. Campbella dla najlepszego nowego pisarza w 2002, nagrodę World Fantasy za powieść Tooth and Claw w 2004, nagrodę Prometeusza za powieść Ha'penny w 2008 oraz nagrody Hugo i Nebulę za powieść Wśród obcych. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Grudzień 1964  •  Natępne imiona Джо Волтон
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Jo Walton: 22 cytaty0 Polubień

Jo Walton: Cytaty po angielsku

“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”

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“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”

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“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”

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“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”

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“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”

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“Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.”

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“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.”

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“I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.”

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“There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.”

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“One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.”

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“If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.”

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“Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.”

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“I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do.”

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“Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.”

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“Marrying her to prove I do not subscribe to an outdated convention of class would be just as foolish as refusing to marry her because I did.”

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Jo Walton książka Tooth and Claw

Źródło: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 9, section 33 (p. 142)

“All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.”

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Jo Walton książka Tooth and Claw

Źródło: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 7, section 27 (p. 118)

“What you can't pay back you pay forward.”

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Jo Walton książka Farthing

Źródło: Farthing (2006), Chapter 27

““I don’t need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth,” Selendra said, with what dignity she could.
“Why, that’s the very definition of a radical,” he retorted.”

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Jo Walton książka Tooth and Claw

Źródło: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 15, section 56 (p. 260)

“There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.”

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Jo Walton książka Farthing

Cf. Anatole France, Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 7: La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. (The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.)
Źródło: Farthing (2006), Chapter 18

“It was only now that they realized that there is nothing that can really be a preparation for death.”

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Jo Walton książka Tooth and Claw

Źródło: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 2, section 7 (p. 29)

“Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world—which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.”

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Jo Walton książka Tooth and Claw

Źródło: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 2, section 7 (p. 28)

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