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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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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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Wizard Howl, said Wizard Suliman. I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.
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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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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 going up to my room now, where I may die.
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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
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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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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. Those are spiders.
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To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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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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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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Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.
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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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In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
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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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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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