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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.

Lev Grossman

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
Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Advice Seriously Writing
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
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
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
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
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm Something
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn’t doing it.
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Annoyed Enough Should Something
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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Enthcuse Intelligent Tree
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
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Book People Want
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
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

Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.

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