Lev Grossman
Related When my husband became a professor at USF in 1966 I remember the campus in Tampa was literally a was... SARAH PAPPAS It's a barren wasteland, a frozen wasteland, TED STEVENS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS DEYTH BANGER A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right. GRATEFUL DEAD Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY It is a barren, frozen wasteland TED STEVENS You will observe a vast wasteland. NEWTON N. MINOW Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER ALDOUS HUXLEY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER T.F. HODGE EMMANUEL JAL ANDREW KENDALL It's going to take years to clean it up. It's a total wasteland. PAUL MOORE When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who... LEAH PRICE HARUKI MURAKAMI ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ROBERT A. HEINLEIN PIERCE BROWN MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. C.S. LEWIS There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole. During an ambush, you're praying for everything a... WARREN ZINN ABHIJIT NASKAR When i was a kid i heard „you must live happy in order to die happy” but now i say in order to l... CHIRIAC EDUARD GILBERT WOODY ALLEN I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow out... JANE ASHER after I die I wish to become a breeze to be able to touch your smile, kiss your eyelashes and play w... SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST By some miracle, Charlotte's polite smile never wavered. It was a proud moment for her. After all, i... OLIVIA PARKER When I first got into the record business I learned that it wasn't cool to be into the Grateful Dead... CHRISTOPHER SABEC I was talking to Rupert Murdoch the other day at a lunch, and he said, 'Maybe I'll live to 1... GERRY HARVEY There's a tendency to look at tracts such as this as empty and wasteland, awaiting development. But ... ROBERT SEABLOOM I have no place to go; Nobody to call me back home. I may as well live alone. BASIL TONG (湯鈞庭 ベーゼル) HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Moonseed Manor did not look like a place to live. Moonseed Manor looked like a place to die. ERICA RIDLEY When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to... KATE FLEETWOOD CASSIE SCERBO When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio... DEAN DEVLIN To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth SHRI RADHE MAA GUY PEARCE NICHOLAS SPARKS TUPAC SHAKUR MADELEINE L'ENGLE ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles HELEN SCHUCMAN TAMMARA WEBBER NICHOLAS SPARKS Id rather be told am beautiful than get a poem saying I look like sunshine KIMBERLY SHILENJE FRANCINE RIVERS MORRISSEY STEPHEN CHBOSKY On a piece of wasteland in Leeds I once saw a used condom in the grass. A dead and sordid thing. And... GLENN HAYBITTLE WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY DANIEL BOONE I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am th... STEVEN HATFILL I immediately said to myself Ive got to do something, ... Ive got to help as many as I can. I am not... AMY COLLINS I feel I am lucky to have a place to dance. Now you don't just have to go to New York City anymore. CYNTHIA GREGORY I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films. URSULA ANDRESS MAYA ANGELOU FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS CORAZON AQUINO If I were to live knowing that I would die, I would rather choose not to live after all. EPHDAN I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these th... BILL CALLAHAN A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE ERNEST HEMINGWAY RAINER MARIA RILKE ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS TESSA DARE HARPER LEE We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO AZZEDINE ALAIA KATIE MCGARRY JESSICA BIEL MICHELLE BRANCH BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA My personal feeling is were not going to see the price of oil and the price at the pump go down fo... CAROLYN ALLEN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When I'm in here I'm fine, but when I go into the real world and see other people functioning
I h... KAREN BROWN You used to look down from Meredith, and it was a wasteland from us to 10th Street. We could see the... ART SLUSARK L. FRANK BAUM
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature 
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We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... 
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No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know... 
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