Lev Grossman Quotes

I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.

Lev Grossman

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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Pay attention to your friends; pay attention to that cousin that jumps up on the picnic table at the family reunion and goes a little too 'nutty,' you know what I mean? Pay attention to that aunt that's down in the basement that never comes upstairs. We have to pay attention to our friends, pay attention to your family, and offer a hand.

Jenifer Lewis

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Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.

Robert Kurson

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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Sophia Loren

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It's weird because if I'm not doing anything, I get antsy. I feel like I always have to be doing something.

Trevor Jackson

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Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

Ross Kemp

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The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

Jonathan Sacks

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People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

Jorge Garcia

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For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.

Dennis Prager

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Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Brian Eno

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'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.

Bryan Burrough

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I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

Bruce Feiler

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