"That was the problem ... with trusting to……" — Jacqueline Carey
"That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves."
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Jacqueline Carey
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88 Quotes by Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline Carey has 88 quotes on this site.
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There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians…
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The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.
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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to…
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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque…
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All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
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If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to…
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It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.
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I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was…
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Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
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That which yields is not always weak.
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Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve…
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It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often…
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
— Banana Yoshimoto
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...I am much better now at ambiguities.
— Saul Bellow
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar…
— J. G. Ballard
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The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
— Scott Turow
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The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified…
— Ali Larijani
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The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost…
— Marilyn Hacker
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
— Herman Melville
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have…
— Bertrand Russell
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If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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