A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
LEV GROSSMANThe real world is horrible.
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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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It’s an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek
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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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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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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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Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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I feel that’s one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We’re still asking those questions in an urgent way.
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Supposedly I’ve got traces of an English accent, though I can’t hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who’s English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
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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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You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals
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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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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else.
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