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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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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
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
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something
People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Book People Want
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
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm Something
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
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
I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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Breaking Crossing Line Lines Rules
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
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
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore.
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Anticlimactic Done Feelings Something Want
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
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Jokes Personality Whole

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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