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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Diana Wynne Jones

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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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Ignoring
Silly
Hero
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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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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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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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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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Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.
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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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I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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Can't you treat yourself with a bit more consideration?' 'Why should I?' Mordion said, hugging the duvet round himself. 'Because you're a person, of course!' Ann snapped at him. 'One person ought to treat another person properly even if the person's himself!
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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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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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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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 hope your bacon burns.
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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 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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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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