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Famous Lev Grossman Quotes
“As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.”
“I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.”
“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
“We have lived too long. The great days are past.”
“The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?”
“It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.”
“The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.”
“There is really no end to life's little humiliations.”
“His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.”
“Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.”
“Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.”
“You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.”
“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”
“We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.”
“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.”