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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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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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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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He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same.
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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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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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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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She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
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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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And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.
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I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.
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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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Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.
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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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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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A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
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Such nonsense! declared Dr Greysteel. Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful! Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner, said Strange. That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.
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The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by
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