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• 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.

  Jo Walton

  Thinking, Dragons, Needs

  Jo Walton (2013). “Tooth and Claw”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

  Jo Walton

  Library, Budgets

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

  Jo Walton

  Wild Places, Farms

  Jo Walton (2003). “Tooth and Claw”, p.139, Macmillan

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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.

  Jo Walton

  Powerful, Real, Class

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.66, Macmillan

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• You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.

  Jo Walton

  Real, Class, People

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.64, Macmillan

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• I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Reading, Heart

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.235, Macmillan

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• I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.

  Jo Walton

  Growing Up, Real, People

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• Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

  Jo Walton

  Glasses, World, Landscape

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