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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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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
You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!
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Contentment Obsessed Other Worlds
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
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
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
I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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Breaking Crossing Line Lines Rules
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
The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
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Past Play Ruin Stay
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 studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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College Littles Long Study
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
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
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
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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Careful Catch Hunts Lest

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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