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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
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Sage
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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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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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I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
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Learn to drive? Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.
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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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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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...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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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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A heart's a heavy burden.
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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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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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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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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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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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