Quotes - Colin (colinbrodd) Showing 1-30 of 115

#1

“Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word.
Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?"
"I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

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#2

“By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.”
― Michael Moorcock, Mother London

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#3

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

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#4

“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
― Lee Child, 61 Hours

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#5

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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#6

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
― Terry Southern

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#7

“It was her religion to make the best of everything.”
― Lyndall Gordon, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft – The Unconventional Genius Who Founded Modern Feminism and Influenced Political Philosophy

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#8

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#9

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

tags: books, children, children-s-literature

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#10

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

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#11

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

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#12

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#13

“That’s our damnation,” he whispered. “Our moral improvement has reached its finish, and our intellect grows by leaps and bounds.”
― Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil

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#14

“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

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#15

“I've never wanted a quiet life.”
― Lydia Cacho

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#16

“He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

tags: boy, cool, girl, successful, try

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#17

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
― Rebecca Makkai

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#18

“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: short-stories, writing

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#19

“The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”
― Harlan Ellison, Stalking the Nightmare

tags: writing

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#20

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

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#21

“Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.”
― Christopher Marlowe

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#22

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

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#23

“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
― René Char

tags: resistance, words

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#24

“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
― H. Rider Haggard, She

tags: after-death, death, forget, forgetting, immortality, life, live-forever, mortality, sleep

956 likes

#25

“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#26

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
― Mercedes Lackey

tags: humor

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#27

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

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#28