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Susanna Clarke

Data de nascimento: 1. Novembro 1959
Outros nomes:سوسانا كلارك

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Susanna Mary Clarke é uma escritora inglesa nascida em Nottingham, mais conhecida por sua obra de estréia, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell , ganhadora do Hugo Award como história alternativa.

Citações Susanna Clarke

„Palavra de honra, não existe nada no mundo tão fácil de explicar como o fracasso... É, afinal de contas, o que todo mundo alcança o tempo inteiro.“

— Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

„Há quem prefira atribuir sua falta de êxito a uma falha do mundo em vez de ao conhecimento mediano que tenha.“

— Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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„Um sistema moral que pune a mulher e isenta o homem de toda a culpa me parece assaz execrável.“

— Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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

— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

„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.“

— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

„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.“

— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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

— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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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, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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

— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

„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.“

— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

„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.“

— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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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, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

„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.“

— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

„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.“

— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

„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.“

— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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