Lev Grossman Quotes
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.
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Nothing ever grows in this rotten old holeAnd everything is stunted and lostAnd nothing really rocks and nothing really rollsAnd nothing's ever worth the cost. And I know that I'm damned if I never get outAnd maybe I'm damned if I doBut with every other beat I got left in my heartYou know I'd rather be damned with you.
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My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.
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I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.
