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Vote: | All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows. |
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Vote: | All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness. |
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Vote: | Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. |
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Vote: | Cemented into the floor beside the windows were a number of tables with such spindly single legs and tiny tops that they looked like toadstools. They were just the right height for grown-up to eat at standing up - which was fortunate, since there were no chairs. |
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Vote: | Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn't that what he'd always dreamed of? |
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Vote: | I recognised us. |
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Vote: | In their view, even leisure time had to be used to the full, so as to extract the maximum of entertainment and relaxation with the minimum of delay. |
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Vote: | Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. |
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Vote: | Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion. |
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Vote: | No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. |
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Vote: | She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on. |
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Vote: | She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her. |
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Vote: | Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well. |
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Vote: | Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. |
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Vote: | When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. |
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Michael Ende (November 12, 1929 – August 29, 1995) was a German writer of fantasy novels and children's books. He was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Bavaria, Germany), son of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende. He died in Stuttgart (Germany) of stomach cancer.
He is best known for his work Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story), and his other books include Momo and Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer.
He is one of the most popular and most famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's books, which invite the reader into strange worlds full of visionary symbolic power and enable them to identify with the heroes of the story.
Michael Ende's works have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 20 million copies.
Works
Michael Ende's works include:
*Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (1960) (published in the United States as Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver)
*Jim Knopf und die Wilde Dreizehn (1962) (published in the United States as Jim Button and the Wild 13)
**Overlook Press, 1990, ISBN 0-87951-391-8
*The Grey Gentlemen / Momo (1973)
**Viking Penguin Press, 1986, ISBN 0-14-009464-4
*The Neverending Story (1979)
**Amereon Ltd., 1979, ISBN 0-8488-1306-5
**Buccaneer Books, 1991, ISBN 0-89966-807-0
**Puffin Books, 1993, ISBN 0-14-038633-5
**NAL/Dutton, 1997, ISBN 0-52545758-5
*Juggler's Tale (1982)
*Mirror in the Mirror (1986)
*Ophelia's Shadow Theater (1988)
**Overlook Press, 1989, ISBN 0-87951-371-3
*Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch (1989) (translated as The Night of Wishes: or, The Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion)
**Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992, ISBN 0-374-19594-3
**Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995, ISBN 0-374-45503-1
**Sunburst Press, 1995, ISBN 0-14-93759-4
*Das Gefägnis der Freiheit (1992)
**Weitbrecht Verlag, 1992, ISBN 85-517-7933-2
*Der Rattenfänger (1993)
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