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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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Calcifer, Sophie said, I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you? It would if anyone else broke it, Calcifer said hoarsely. That's why I asked you to do 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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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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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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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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I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
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And you're too nice, he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.
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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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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
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I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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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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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).
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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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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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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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