If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn't make it so. Words and thoughts don’t change anything. Language and reality are kept strictly apart — reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn't care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn't. You deal with it, and you get on with your life.
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Lev Grossman was a contemporary American novelist and journalist. Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist who wrote The Magicians trilogy: The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011), and The Magician's Land (2014). He was the book critic and lead technology writer at Time magazine from 2002 to 2016. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Life — Reflections on the meaning, challenges, and beauty of life