"He wasn't surprised. He was used to this……" — Lev Grossman
"He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore."
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109 Quotes by Lev Grossman
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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,…
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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…
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is…
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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…
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Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in…
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Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never…
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About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I…
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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…
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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…
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As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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