Top 100 Lev's Quotes

#1. Hate isn't like love, it doesn't end. It goes on forever. You can never get to the bottom of it. And it's so pure, so unconditional!

Lev Grossman

Lev's Quotes #4328
#2. They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad. This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.

Lev Shestov

Lev's Quotes #41983
#3. What's the fastest migratory bird on Earth?" "An airplane.

Lev Grossman

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#4. Guy lives in a fantasy world without junk food or cars or trans fats or TV and he's still fat. You had to admire his dedication to the cause.

Lev Grossman

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#5. Vile Father's brown nipples, on the ends of his pendulous man-cans, were like dried figs.

Lev Grossman

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#6. Some people need their families to become who they're supposed to be. And there's nothing wrong with that. But there are other ways to do it.

Lev Grossman

Lev's Quotes #191288
#7. There's no such thing as a young refugee; every migrant has a past they've fled from, and how can you be young when you already have one life behind you?

Lev Golinkin

Lev's Quotes #191709
#8. During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long ... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.

Lev Manovich

Lev's Quotes #201656
#9. First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire. Otherwise the tactical trees will conceal from the player the strategic picture of the wood, in which his orientation will most likely be lost.

Lev Polugaevsky

Lev's Quotes #205596
#10. By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

Lev S. Vygotsky

Lev's Quotes #212732
#11. The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

Lev Grossman

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#12. The multiverse was his TGI Friday's.

Lev Grossman

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#13. Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.

Lev Grossman

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#14. What about Josh?" he croaked. "Go ask him." "He's got another project." Janet rolled her eyes. "He thinks he can use the Neitherlands to get to Middle-earth. He honestly believes he's going to bone an elf." "I

Lev Grossman

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#15. When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

Lev Yilmaz

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#16. It was the strangest thing, but he was looking forward to everything so much, he could hardly stand it. He never would have believed it. He never thought he would.
"You know what?" He took Alice's hand. "Let's fly.

Lev Grossman

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#17. Supposedly the Thames dragon wrote most of Pink Floyd's stuff. At least after Syd Barrett left. But there's no way to prove it.

Lev Grossman

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#18. Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.

Lev S. Vygotsky

Lev's Quotes #322722
#19. That's it?" "That's it. And then you jump in. It's all just tradition. I mean,

Lev Grossman

Lev's Quotes #325518
#20. No one gets punished for anything. We do whatever we want, and that's all we do, and nobody stops us, and nobody cares.

Lev Grossman

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#21. You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.

Lev Grossman

Lev's Quotes #352508
#22. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

Lev Grossman

Lev's Quotes #353861
#23. It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

Lev Grossman

Lev's Quotes #416513
#24. Twenty-two poems covered the period from Lev's first serious efforts to his arrest in 1948 at the age of nineteen. Very Mandelstamian, I adjudged: well-made, and studiously conversational, and coming close, here and there, to the images that really hurt and connect.

Martin Amis

Lev's Quotes #422675
#25. And I need this. That's all I can tell you.

Lev Grossman

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#26. Sometimes I think I am fate's sword. She wields me cruelly." Quentin wondered what it was like to be so unselfconsciously melodramatic. Nice, probably. "Right.

Lev Grossman

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#27. The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#28. Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#29. Quentin's conversations with his parents were so circular and self-defeating, they sounded like experimental theater.

Lev Grossman

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#30. There is something beyond freedom that people need: work, love, belief in something, commitment to something. Freedom is not enough.It's necessary but it'd not sufficient. It's what you do with freedom - what you give it up for - that matters

Lev Grossman

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#31. There's no getting away from yourself. Not even in Fillory.

Lev Grossman

Lev's Quotes #521440
#32. Maybe when you give up your dreams, you find out that there's more to life than dreaming.

Lev Grossman

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#33. It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.

Lev Grossman

Lev's Quotes #545979
#34. One, your hair is stupid. And two, I don't know what it's like where you come from, but if you ever do anything that could get me sent back to Brooklyn again, I won't just break your nose. I will motherfucking kill you.

Lev Grossman

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#35. Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.

Lev Grossman

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#36. It would be like Prospero's island, but in a good way: not a country of exile, a model world, safe and peaceful and private. A magician's land.

Lev Grossman

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#37. I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

Lev Grossman

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#38. The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.

Lev S. Vygotsky

Lev's Quotes #600051
#39. I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

Lev Grossman

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#40. When he graduated he'd thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero's journey, and that the world would provide him with an endless series of evils to triumph over and life lessons to learn. It took him a while to figure out that wasn't how it worked.

Lev Grossman

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#41. There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#42. Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

Lev Vygotsky

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#43. It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

Lev Grossman

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#44. It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there.

Lev Grossman

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#45. It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#46. Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

Lev Grossman

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#47. Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake.

Lev Grossman

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#48. Play continually creates demands on the child to act against immediate impulse, i.e., to act according to the line of greatest resistance.

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#49. I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.

Lev L. Spiro

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#50. A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

Lev Vygotsky

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#51. I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Lev Grossman

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#52. Lots of people say they've talked to dragons, but it's very hard to verify. Supposedly the Thames dragon wrote most of Pink Floyd's stuff. At least after

Lev Grossman

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#53. Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#54. There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

Lev Grossman

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#55. There was more to life than being fat and safe and warm in a clockwork luxury resort. Or maybe there wasn't more, but he was going to find out. And how did you find out? You had an adventure. That's how. You picked up a golden key.

Lev Grossman

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#56. Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

Lev Artsimovich

Lev's Quotes #809374
#57. To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty.

Lev Shestov

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#58. All of human literature could just be a user's guide to the multiverse!

Lev Grossman

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#59. Of course I'm not sure," he said. "That's why you go. To find out if it's enough. You just have to be sure you want to find out.

Lev Grossman

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#60. Beer might help with that," Quentin said. He felt punchy. "This could be the next clue. If it's a talking beer, I mean a talking bear, we could, you know, talk to it.

Lev Grossman

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#61. Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#62. Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#63. Even on the first day we invaded Plover's house we sensed the conundrum that Americans are faced with in England: they're too frightened of English people to behave rudely to them, and too ignorant to know how to behave politely.

Lev Grossman

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#64. Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#65. It was a worrying trend. Everybody else was deep into their own stories, and all the stories were woven together just beneath the surface into a web that included Plum. But what was Plum's story?

Lev Grossman

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#66. It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

Lev Grossman

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#67. For a long time Eliot had had the theory that in Janet's mind everybody was as judgmental of her as she was of them, and if that was true then the world must be a pretty scary place for her.

Lev Grossman

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#68. Labyrinths were old sorcery, and subtle: good for recharging one's magical resources when they were running low.

Lev Grossman

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#69. People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#70. You hate yourself so much, you'll hurt anybody who loves you. That's it, isn't it? Just to get even with them for loving you.

Lev Grossman

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#71. In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.

Lev L. Spiro

Lev's Quotes #1016921
#72. But strange though it may seem, the more he judged, and the more he realized that men feared and acknowledged his right to judge, the more his innermost soul questioned man's right to judgment of any kind.

Lev Shestov

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#73. I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

Lev Grossman

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#74. Through others we become ourselves.

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#75. Language is the tool of the tools

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#76. He's so happy," Eliot said dryly. "It's like he cooked something and it came out looking like the picture in the cookbook.

Lev Grossman

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#77. I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.

Lev Grossman

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#78. Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#79. Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#80. My coach once told me "there's no "I" in "team." I responded there's also no "I" in "hackneyed." Then I had to run 12 laps.

Lev L. Spiro

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#81. Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.

Lev Landau

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#82. Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.

Lev Grossman

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#83. What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#84. Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that's ripe for saving

Neal Shusterman

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#85. The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

Lev S. Vygotsky

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#86. I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

Lev Grossman

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#87. The year since then had been peaceful and prosperous, and in some ways the mood was lighter in the castle with Josh and Poppy installed as King and Queen in place of Quentin and Julia, Fillory's brooders-in-chief.

Lev Grossman

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#88. If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

Lev Grossman

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#89. They spent the rest of that afternoon together. Maybe he felt guilty for giving Quentin the cigarette, or maybe Eliot had decided that the tedium of solitude was ever so slightly greater than the tedium of Quentin's company. Maybe he just needed a straight man. He

Lev Grossman

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#90. That's how you roll when you're a secret teenage magician

Lev Grossman

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#91. It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

Lev Grossman

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#92. Plover's words were like dried flowers, stiff and crumbling, crushed flat between pages, when we'd had the living, blooming blossoms all around

Lev Grossman

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#93. He almost felt like he was betraying Julia. But what did he owe her? It's not like she even would have cared. And Professor Sunderland was here. He wanted somebody who was part of his new world. Julia had her chance.

Lev Grossman

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#94. You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

Lev Grossman

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#95. So Connor stands there with secret anticipation each time there's a group of new arrivals, hoping beyond hope he'll find that self-righteous, self-important, pain-in-the-ass Lev still alive.

Neal Shusterman

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#96. Look, who's the talking bear here?" Quentin snapped. "Is it you? Are you the talking fucking bear? All right. So shut the fuck up.

Lev Grossman

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#97. It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.

Lev L. Spiro

Lev's Quotes #1380915
#98. He would lose whatever he had to lose, if that's what it took to win.

Lev Grossman

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#99. More lies. But what could you do? That's how you roll when you're a teenage magician!

Lev Grossman

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#100. I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that he's incredibly found of and he took certain structural influences from that book that he brought into The Magicians.

Hale Appleman

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