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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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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Day Great Long Past
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
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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Careful Catch Hunts Lest
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
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
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
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
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
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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College Littles Long Study
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
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Jokes Personality Whole
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
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
Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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Late Magic Stuff Too

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