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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.

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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
Modern
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Sage
Died
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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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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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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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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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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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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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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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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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A heart's a heavy burden.
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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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Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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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 seem to have excalibured this knife.
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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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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
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You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-
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