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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.
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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I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But two must always struggle for mastery. Two must always watch each other. The eyes of all the world will be on two, uncertain which of them to follow.
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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 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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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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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 screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully. It is certainly a most terrifying substance.
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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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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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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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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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I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.
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A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
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Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.
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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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Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.
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After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.
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