Lev Grossman Quotes
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
Lev Grossman
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Wallace Stevens
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
Abraham Lincoln
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
Kate Winslet
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
W. H. Auden
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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
L. Neil Smith
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I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
Richard Lewis
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
V. S. Naipaul
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If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.
Deborah Norville
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It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
Lev Grossman