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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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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
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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Choices Mistakes Pennies
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
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
I feel that’s one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We’re still asking those questions in an urgent way.
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Asking Fantasy Way
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something
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
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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College Littles Long Study
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Day Great Long Past
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
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
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
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
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
The real world is horrible.
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Horrible Real World

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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