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I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

Susanna Clarke

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Susanna Clarke
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: November 16
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Susanna Mary Clarke
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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 have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
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