"I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon."

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Source : Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

Lev Grossman

#Dragons Quotes #Cartoon Quotes #Dungeons Quotes

“If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.”
“When I was eight years old to be a spaceman was the most exciting thing I could imagine.”
“What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.”
“You should forgive your enemies and if you haven't any, just forgive a few of your friends.”
“O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.”
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
“One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.”
“No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.”

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