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I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.

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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
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After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.
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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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It's just as I thought, she said. I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?
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All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.
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...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [...] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.
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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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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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Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before. Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170
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Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
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Learn to drive? Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.
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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
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Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.
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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.
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