The real world is horrible.
LEV GROSSMANMagic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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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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I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed – it was – impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.
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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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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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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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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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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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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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He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore.
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Supposedly I’ve got traces of an English accent, though I can’t hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who’s English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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