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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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Hate Parent Promise
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he’d gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.
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Crush Depressing relief
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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Fans Nerd Paper Trouble
Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Advice Seriously Writing
The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
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Past Play Ruin Stay
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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East Tribe Way
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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Ignorance Neglect Rulers
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
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Damage Fall Fighting Merely Pain
The new Web is a very different thing. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it’s really a revolution.
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Contribute Different People Silicon Small Together
People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Book People Want
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
Maybe there’s a sense that technology isn’t necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world – a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.
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Feelings Real Technology
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm Something
It’s an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek
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Glimpse Looks Soul

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