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There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.
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I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.
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You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.
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Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.
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It was only now that they realized that there is nothing that can really be a preparation for death.
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If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
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Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.
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It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.
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You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.
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I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.
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The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.
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I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth, Selendra said, with what dignity she could.
Why, that's the very definition of a radical, he retorted.
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I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.
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Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world—which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.
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I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.
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If you love books enough, books will love you back.
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Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.
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There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There's interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.
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There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.
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I don't think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It's not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It's not just being outside when they're all inside. I used to be inside. I think there's a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they're happening which isn't normal.
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All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.
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Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.
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Marrying her to prove I do not subscribe to an outdated convention of class would be just as foolish as refusing to marry her because I did.
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One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.
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I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.
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Jo Walton
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Born:
December 1, 1964
(age 59)
Bio:
Jo Walton is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004.
Known for:
Among Others (2011)
The Just City (2015)
The Philosopher Kings (2015)
My Real Children (2014)
Tooth and Claw (2003)
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