"The very shape of our dreams defines us.……" — Isobelle Carmody
"The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life."
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Isobelle Carmody
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25 Quotes by Isobelle Carmody
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Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification…
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The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
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Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short…
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The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person…
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My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable…
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Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they…
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Maruman does not loll.
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You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is…
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The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves…
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Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
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Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see…
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Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and…
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
— Jane Austen
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is…
— Teresa of Avila
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day…
— Joseph Addison
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and…
— Adele
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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