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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
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
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Jokes Personality Whole
People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Book People Want
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
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
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Day Great Long Past
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
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
The real world is horrible.
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Horrible Real World
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 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
Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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Hate Parent Promise
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 big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
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Interesting Numbers Observed Order
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

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

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