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“How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.” quote by Susanna Clarke — Download Open image

“How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.”

Susanna Clarke

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you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.

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“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”

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“It was as if a door had opened somewhere. Or possibly a series of doors. There was a sensation as of a breeze blowing into the house and bringing with it the half-remembered scents of childhood. There was a shift in the light which seemed to cause all the shadows in the room to fall differently. There was nothing more…

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“I have always heard that Italian women are rather fierce.”

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“Long, long ago, (said the voice), five hundred years ago or more, on a winter's day at twilight, a young man entered the Church…

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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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“Fairies do not make a strong distinction between the animate and the inanimate. They believe that stones, doors, trees, fire, clouds and so forth all have souls and desires, and are either masculine or feminine. Perhaps this explains the extraordinary sympathy for madness which fairies exhibit. For example, it used to be well known that when fairies hid themselves from…

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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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