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When he graduated he’d thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero’s journey, and that the world would provide him with an endless series of evils to triumph over and life lessons to learn. It took him a while to figure out that wasn’t how it worked.

— Lev Grossman The Magician's Land (2014)

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Has it crossed your mind that you don’t have to go off on a holy crusade every time things don’t go your way?

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