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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.

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Lev Grossman
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 26
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Lexington
Massachusetts
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People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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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 because I'm a weird person.
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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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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.
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Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
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Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.
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That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
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A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
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The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.
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Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
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I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
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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 to live.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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