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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
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I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
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Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it? she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. I'm dying of boredom, Howl said pathetically. Or maybe just dying.
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Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
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You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty? ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle
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So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch? Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!
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It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
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I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.
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