It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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More Lev Grossman Quotes
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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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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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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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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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By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn’t doing it.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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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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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.
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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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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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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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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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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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