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One Quotes by Lev Grossman
- 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…
- 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 marketplace is showing…
- In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have…
- The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In…
- I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the…
- I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can…
- Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will…
- My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
- I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just…
- For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to…
- Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.
- You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
- Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was…
- Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle