The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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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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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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Escapism has value, even if I don’t know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it’s just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
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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 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 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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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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The real world is horrible.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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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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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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The new Web is a very different thing. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it’s really a revolution.
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I’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read ‘The Long Walk,’ one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read ‘The Dark Half,’ which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read ’11/22/63.’
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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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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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