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Life Quotes by Lev Grossman

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Lev Grossman notes that taking risks is what makes life feel real and exciting, and staying safe can leave you stuck. He also talks about an inner magician, a playful double that whispers about the fake parts of our story. Finally, he marvels at how every corner of the world holds endless richness to explore.

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There is really no end to life's little humiliations.

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“and the rest of his life lay in front of him like a barren, meaningless postscript.”

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“Funny how life had its little ways of surprising you. Little quirks of fate.”

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I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

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“You do realize it's all right to have nice things sometimes, right?”

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“who hadn’t at some point in his life wanted to climb to the top of a sailing ship in full flight?”

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“The separation of word and thing is the essential fact on which our adult lives are founded.”

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The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

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“You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall,…

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“Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could…

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“In real life humans didn’t slay giants, because it was impossible. It would be like killing an apartment building with your bare…

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“But it wasn’t going to kill him. It wasn’t sexy, but it was real, and that was what mattered now. No more…

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“You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared…

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“In real life it was like they were playing some children’s game. It was a little kid’s idea of a magical object.…

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“You can spend your life waiting and watching for perfect moments, but sometimes you have to make one happen.”

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“it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error…

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“If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn't make it so. Words and thoughts don’t change anything.…

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“It's true," Eliot said. "Statistically, historically, and however else you want to look at it, you are almost never right. A monkey…

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“Sure, but real life’s not actually like that,” Quentin went on, fumbling after what he was sure was an important insight. “You…

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“When he graduated he’d thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero’s journey, and…

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In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else,…

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For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that…

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“Your magician self, that loopy doppelgänger, was always with you, tugging at your sleeve, whispering silently that your real life was a…

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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…

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“...In books there's always somebody standing by ready to say hey, the world's in danger, evil's on the rise, but if you're…

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“If you will, for just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next…

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“I’ve learned that the creative life may or may not be the apex of human civilization, but either way it’s not what…

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“Sometimes I wonder if man was really meant to discover magic,” Fogg said expansively. “It doesn’t really make sense. It’s a little…

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“See, when you had magic in your life, it turned out, when you lived the double life of a secret underground magician,…

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“I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When…

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“The world was fucking awful. It was a wretched, desolate place, a desert of meaninglessness, a heartless wasteland, where horrific things happened…

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“There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.”

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If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

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“A Black Madonna: the blackness of death, but also the blackness of good soil, dark with decay, which gives rise to life.”

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“Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.”

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Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it:…

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“He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to…

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It was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary,…

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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…

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Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though…

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I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

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