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.
LEV GROSSMANHis whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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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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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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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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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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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 world is horrible.
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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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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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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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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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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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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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