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5ad6c5f
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The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.
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power-words
self-deprecating
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Ilona Andrews |
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edd10b5
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It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.
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humility
inspirational
love
self-deprecating
wooing
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T.H. White |
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572c6d7
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A book can't be a half fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant.
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literary-criticism
self-deprecating
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David Mitchell |
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6c08273
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What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?
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literary-criticism
self-deprecating
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David Mitchell |
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2a6306c
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Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.
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iris-murdoch
meta
narrative
narrator
self-deprecating
the-black-prince
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Iris Murdoch |