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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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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
People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Book People Want
It’s an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek
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Glimpse Looks Soul
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
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm 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
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Jokes Personality Whole
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed – it was – impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.
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Long Perfect Thinking
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
I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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Breaking Crossing Line Lines Rules
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 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
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
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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Book Forgiving Habit

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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