"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."

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Source : "Why Eliot on The Magicians Is the Fantasy Character We've All Been Waiting For". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. February 9, 2016.

Hale Appleman

#Book Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Her only way home was to betray her friend.”
“Behind every bad law, a deep fear.”
“Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act.”
“This is not mathematics; this is theology.”
“You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.”

Source : Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.8, Random House
“The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.”
“In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.”
“I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.”

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