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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

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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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Book Country House
The real world is horrible.
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Horrible Real 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
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Jokes Personality Whole
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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Fun Growing People Up
Escapism has value, even if I don’t know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it’s just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
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Healthy Way World
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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Magical Pain Strong World
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
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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Interesting Numbers Observed Order
Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Advice Seriously Writing
The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.
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Hero Real Sidekicks Villian
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Day Great Long Past
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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Careful Catch Hunts Lest
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn’t doing it.
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Annoyed Enough Should Something
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something
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

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