People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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More Lev Grossman Quotes
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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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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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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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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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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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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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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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I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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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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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what’s going on in contemporary fiction – not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.
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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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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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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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