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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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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
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
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
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm Something
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
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
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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Hatred Humanity Mind Naked
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
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
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
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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College Littles Long Study
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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Choices Mistakes Pennies
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Jokes Personality Whole
I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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Breaking Crossing Line Lines Rules

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