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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.

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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something
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
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better – as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
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Cartoon Dragons Wizards
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
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 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
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
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
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
The real world is horrible.
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Horrible Real World
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm Something
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
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
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
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.

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