I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore.
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A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
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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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Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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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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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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The problem with growing up is that once you’re grown up, the people who aren’t grown up aren’t fun anymore.
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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
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Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else.
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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Supposedly I’ve got traces of an English accent, though I can’t hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who’s English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
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The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what’s going on in contemporary fiction – not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.
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The real world is horrible.
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I’ve just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals
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