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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

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The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all – in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
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Destined Ends Forgotten Majority
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Day Great Long Past
Young minds – young brains – need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they’ll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.
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Believe Book Need Order Stories
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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Enthcuse Intelligent Tree
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm Something
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
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!
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Contentment Obsessed Other Worlds
I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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Breaking Crossing Line Lines Rules
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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Magic Mind World
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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Doors Real Secret Stop Waiting
People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Book People Want
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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Book Contemporary Fiction Stuff

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