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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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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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Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit! Sophie said. I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!
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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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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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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend? The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.
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To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.
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If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!
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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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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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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 hope your bacon burns.
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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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