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He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same.

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Susanna Clarke
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 16
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Susanna Mary Clarke
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Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.
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The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.
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For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.
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Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.
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Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.
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Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.
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He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.
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Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.
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It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome.
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This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.
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To be more precise it was the color of heartache.
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There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
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She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
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I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.
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It is these black clothes, said Strange. I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.
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It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.
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You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.
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He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.
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Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.
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And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!
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