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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

Lev Grossman

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
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
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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Doors Real Secret Stop Waiting
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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Fun Growing People Up
Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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Late Magic Stuff Too
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
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm Something
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’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
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
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
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Jokes Personality Whole
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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Hatred Humanity Mind Naked
Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Advice Seriously Writing
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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Careful Catch Hunts Lest
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

People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

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