"We're wired to expect the world to be……" — Lev Grossman
"We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world."
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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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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is…
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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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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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More Brighter Quotes
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
— Matsuo Basho
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven,…
— Akhenaton
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'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
— Lord Byron
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I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're…
— Benjamin Carson
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Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed…
— Charlotte Bronte
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How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the…
— Orison Swett Marden
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When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember…
— John of Kronstadt
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What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in…
— J C Ryle
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I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men.…
— Anita Loos
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We reflect on what has been lost and comfort those enduring a profound grief. And somehow we know that a…
— George W. Bush
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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has…
— Emily Dickinson
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Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.
— Emma Goldman
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