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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

Lev Grossman

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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Damage Fall Fighting Merely Pain
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 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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Destined Ends Forgotten Majority
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
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Day Great Long Past
People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Book People Want
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he’d gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.
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Crush Depressing relief
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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Hero Real Sidekicks Villian
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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Healthy Way World
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
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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Hate Parent Promise
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Advice Seriously Writing
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
I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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Fans Nerd Paper Trouble

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

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