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• It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.

  Susanna Clarke

  Curiosity, Curious, Magician

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.756, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• ..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

  Susanna Clarke

  Mad, Gone, Argument

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• It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

  Susanna Clarke

  Character, Names, Needs

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.405, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

  Susanna Clarke

  Doe, World, Easy

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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

  Susanna Clarke

  Kings, Rain, Wind

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• But, though French, she was also very brave.

  Susanna Clarke

  Brave

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales.

  Susanna Clarke

  Senior, Country, Names

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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

  Uncles, Men, Luck

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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  Book, Village, Curious

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories”, p.12, A&C Black

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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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  Angel, Healthy, Fairy

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.

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  Heart, Pockets, Gowns

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.464, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

  Susanna Clarke

  Criticism, Way, Faces

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.522, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.

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  Lovers, Creation, Rational

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.254, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

  Susanna Clarke

  Magic, Lessons, Bears

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

  Susanna Clarke

  Drawing, Habit, Observation

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.691, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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  Yorkshire, Dutch, Strange

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.698, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.

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  Horse, Book, Mean

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.677, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.

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  Lonely, Play, People

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.707, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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  Thinking, Clothes, People

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.681, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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  Cat, Silence, Peculiar

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.630, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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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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  Men, Laughing, Doe

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories”, p.30, A&C Black

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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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  Matter, Imagine, Should

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.444, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from chronic indigestion.

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  Eye, Half, Odd

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• You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

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  Mean, Mad, Dukes

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• To be more precise it was the color of heartache.

  Susanna Clarke

  Color, Heartache, Precise

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