Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
LEV GROSSMANThe real world is horrible.
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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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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 recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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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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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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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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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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The new Web is a very different thing. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it’s really a revolution.
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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I’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read ‘The Long Walk,’ one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read ‘The Dark Half,’ which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read ’11/22/63.’
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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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Young minds – young brains – need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they’ll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.
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