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What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.


Lev Grossman

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STEVE GROSSMAN Tom Reillys case to the people of Massachusetts does not rest on where he stands on one particular i...
STEVE GROSSMAN Look, it's a tumultuous, challenging time for the party. That simply means that the leadership of th...
STEVE GROSSMAN Just because someone is against you, to compare them to a terrorist group is not right.
STEVE GROSSMAN Let me be clear, the audit did not single out Asian Americans as Asian Americans.
STEVE GROSSMAN MegaHertz is pleased to build upon our successful relationship with Grass Valley and expand the brea...
STEVE GROSSMAN I will reach out to John Kerry unless he reaches out to me first.
STEVE GROSSMAN You need a 40-foot ladder to clean the gutters. I can't even pick up a 40-foot ladder.
STEVE GROSSMAN It's been a crazy year, nothing that I expected to happen, happened. I am going to come back prepare...
REX GROSSMAN This is another bad thing that happened, but I know great things are coming for me. I feel like I've...
REX GROSSMAN It's smart of them to bring in someone who they feel is a better backup plan, even though I feel lik...
REX GROSSMAN I knew right away, and I was kind of in denial to start with,
REX GROSSMAN I'm just a positive person and I feel like this is just another bad thing to happen but I know great...
REX GROSSMAN قد لا يكون من الشائع الحديث في تلك المسألة، ولكن في الو�...
MIRIAM GROSSMAN All the moms, and dads, and kids, and grandparents - everybody helps.
ETHEL GROSSMAN We have big serving lines in the kitchen. They fill your plate and they take it out, and you never k...
ETHEL GROSSMAN We order the meat [in advance] because it has to be kosher.
ETHEL GROSSMAN It used to be a buffet, but that would take forever now.
ETHEL GROSSMAN If we knew how to get the label on the outside, we'd all be in clover.
IRWIN GROSSMAN It's interesting and exciting when your hometown (albeit an adopted hometown) makes the Super Bowl.
ELI GROSSMAN In the blank wall of the world’s indifference there had appeared a tiny snakelike fissure
VASILY GROSSMAN Their guidance being overly conservative for next quarter, that's what's causing the most chaos in t...
JIM GROSSMAN We are waiting for a miracle.
ELI GROSSMAN I've not been afraid to take risks, be resolute and passionate about purpose, and inspire people...
MINDY GROSSMAN Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, ...
VASILY GROSSMAN Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew tha...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN We held certain truths to be self-evident, but those truths were that elves hate orcs and wizards ca...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN A generation of lawyers and statisticians cut their teeth on the to-hit and damage tables of medieva...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN The voice came from the other side of the divider, an older man, bald, who wore a leather vest over ...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN Another teen friendship, another tiny mysterious universe.
AUSTIN GROSSMAN Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more pos...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN You resolve to reach the center of the galaxy, the center of everything, if you can, and that’s wh...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN I'm drawing a diagram of what time looks like if you're looking straight into it - like looking down...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN