Lev Grossman Quotes

My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.

Lev Grossman

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But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.

Jim Clyburn

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With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.

Jesmyn Ward

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If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.

Andy Dunn

MeYouBecomeSomethingObviousHow

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

Robert Kennedy

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When you find a way to be really receptive to your child's needs and really listen, you can be more open to what they say they want or what they say they need.

Anna Getty

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Although it requires some adjustment by those already here, immigration has made the U.S.A. the most prosperous nation on Earth.

Jeff Hawkins

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People who make no noise are dangerous.

Jean de La Fontaine

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If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to radio.

Tracy Lawrence

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What hit me in the gut about hip-hop was that someone else grew up tough enough to be angry at the entire system.

Lukas Forchhammer

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After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.

Luanne Rice

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Josh Billings

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Accurst be he that first invented war.

Christopher Marlowe

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