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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.

Lev Grossman

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
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
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Jokes Personality Whole
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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Crush Depressing relief
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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Book Contemporary Fiction Stuff
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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Contentment Obsessed Other Worlds
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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East Tribe Way
Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else.
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Doors Real Secret Stop Waiting
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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Careful Catch Hunts Lest
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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College Littles Long Study
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Day Great Long Past
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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Magic Mind World
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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Believe Book Need Order Stories
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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Glimpse Looks Soul

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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