We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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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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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what’s going on in contemporary fiction – not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.
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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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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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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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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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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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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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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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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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