"If there's a single lesson that life teaches……" — Lev Grossman
"If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so."
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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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More Lesson Quotes
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
— James M. Barrie
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The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system…
— Ben Bernanke
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I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But…
— Bjork
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Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you…
— Tom Bodett
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
— Ray Bradbury
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life…
— Joseph Brodsky
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You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'
— Gary Busey
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Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
— George H. W. Bush
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
— Lewis Carroll
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