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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?

Lev Grossman

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I’ve just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
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Book Forgiving Habit
The real world is horrible.
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Horrible Real World
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Day Great Long Past
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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East Tribe Way
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm Something
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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Glimpse Looks Soul
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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Interesting Numbers Observed Order
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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College Littles Long Study
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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Magical Pain Strong World
Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Advice Seriously Writing
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
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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Contentment Obsessed Other Worlds
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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Careful Catch Hunts Lest
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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Past Play Ruin Stay
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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Magic Mind World

The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?

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