I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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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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 process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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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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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 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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In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
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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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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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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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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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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 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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