Tao Te Ching

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Susanna Clarke

1959 CE –

Susanna grew up in a family with a Methodist minister father who frequently had to relocate. This probably encouraged her more outsider, individualistic approach to writing. She worked for more than 10 years on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell before it was published (after two major rejections) in 2004 winning the Hugo, World Fantasy, and many other Awars. To support her literary efforts, she worked teaching English as a second language, editing cookbooks for Simon & Schuster, and helping Quarto and Gordon Fraser with publishing projects. Her inward journey during this time was obviously much more interesting than how things looked from the outside.

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Quotes by Susanna Clarke (4 quotes)

“They were all enamored with the idea of progress and believed that whatever was new must be superior to what was old. As if merit was a function of chronology!”

from Piranesi

Themes: Ambition Progress

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“The world was constantly speaking to Ancient Man... When they observed the world, the world observed them back.”

from Piranesi

Themes: Ordinary Mind

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“Reality was not only capable of taking part in a dialogue — intelligible and articulate — it was also persuadable.”

from Piranesi

Themes: Reality

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“It seemed to me that the wisdom of the ancients could not have simply vanished. Nothing simply vanishes... this energy must be going somewhere. That was when I realized that there must be other places, other worlds. And so I set myself to find them.”

from Piranesi

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