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Lev Grossman has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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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…
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One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The…
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind…
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It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
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Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to…
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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…
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About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody…
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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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Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
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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…
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As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold…
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
— Balthus
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
— Flora Lewis
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Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language
— Sophie Marceau
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I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language,…
— Juliet Stevenson
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
— Gates McFadden
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In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended…
— Shirley Hazzard
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we…
— Richard Bach
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Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know
— Margaret Thatcher
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To speak another language is to have another soul
— Charlemagne
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Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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