Lev Grossman Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.
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The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.
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The real world is horrible.
