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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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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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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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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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I seem to have excalibured this knife.
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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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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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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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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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Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
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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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Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.
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I hope your bacon burns.
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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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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...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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Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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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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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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