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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 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
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
People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Book People Want
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Jokes Personality Whole
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
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
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
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
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
Supposedly I’ve got traces of an English accent, though I can’t hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who’s English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
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Exacerbated Facts Mother Thinking
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
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
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
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
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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Careful Catch Hunts Lest
Escapism has value, even if I don’t know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it’s just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
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Healthy Way World

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