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It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.

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Susanna Clarke
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: November 16
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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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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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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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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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I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.
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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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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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She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
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To be more precise it was the color of heartache.
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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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