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- We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.
- But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the…
- I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
- There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one…
- The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn…
- Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.
- It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are
- It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part…
- Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In…
- Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the…
- You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go…
- Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits…
- I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what…
- I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily…
- It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself,…
- All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
- I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who…
- Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
- When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take…
- Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
- We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time.…
- People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in…
- I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to…
- That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
- There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
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- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle