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Susanna Clarke, née le 1er novembre 1959 à Nottingham en Angleterre, est une écrivaine britannique. Elle s'est fait connaître du grand-public en 2004 grâce à son premier roman de fantasy Jonathan Strange et Mr Norrell. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. novembre 1959  •  Autres noms سوسانا كلارك
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“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”

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Susanna Clarke livre Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”

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“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”

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Susanna Clarke livre Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”

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Susanna Clarke livre Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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“She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.”

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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.”

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“To be more precise it was the color of heartache.”

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“He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.”

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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.”

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Susanna Clarke livre Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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“Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.”

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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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“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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“Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.”

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Susanna Clarke livre The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

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“It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.”

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“Woods were ringed with a colour so soft, so subtle that it could scarcely be said to be a colour at all. It was more theof a colour - as if the trees were dreaming green dreams or thinking green thoughts.”

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“Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.”

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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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“What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.”

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“It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome.”

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

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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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Susanna Clarke livre The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

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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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Susanna Clarke livre Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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“To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.”

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Susanna Clarke livre Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Variante: I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
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“It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.”

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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”

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Source: Jonathan Strange i pan Norrell. Tom 3

“I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Susanna Clarke livre Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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