I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
LEV GROSSMANThe 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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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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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 turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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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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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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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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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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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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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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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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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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