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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

Lev Grossman

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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Late Magic Stuff Too
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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Enthcuse Intelligent Tree
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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Fans Nerd Paper Trouble
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
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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Long Perfect Thinking
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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Destined Ends Forgotten Majority
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Day Great Long Past
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
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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Fun Growing People Up
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
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm Something
The real world is horrible.
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Horrible Real World
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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Book Country House
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

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