Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
LEV GROSSMANMagic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!
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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore.
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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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The real world is horrible.
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The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all – in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
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A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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Maybe there’s a sense that technology isn’t necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world – a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.
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A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better – as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
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The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.
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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what’s going on in contemporary fiction – not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.
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The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
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The problem with growing up is that once you’re grown up, the people who aren’t grown up aren’t fun anymore.
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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