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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.
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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A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
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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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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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Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.
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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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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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I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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But, though French, she was also very brave.
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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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She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
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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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He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same.
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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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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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