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.
LEV GROSSMANWe have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
More Lev Grossman Quotes
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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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 loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better – as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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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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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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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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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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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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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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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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