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"It looks as if you need only enter the field for long enough to recognise the bannus and take hold of it. Then you order it to stop."
"Fight my way through a mob of dancing girls and snatch the dulcimer off the leading damsel," Reigner Two said morbidly. "I can just see myself. I think the fools who invented this thing might have thought of a simpler way to stop it. What's wrong with a red switch?"

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If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer, though it might be as powerful as ever.

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Imagination doesn't just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don't, and never would, write Real Books.

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I only want to catch you, Michael explained. I won't hurt you. No! No! the star crackled desperately. That's wrong! I'm supposed to die! But I could save you if you'd let me catch you, Michael told it gently. No! cried the star. I'd rather die!

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If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!

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