"That most dangerous of opponents: the one who……" — Piers Anthony
"That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary."
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54 Quotes by Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony has 54 quotes on this site.
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is…
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I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
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What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
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When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued…
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I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view…
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie…
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As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not…
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Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a…
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I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I…
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More Adversaries Quotes
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The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
— Albert Camus
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In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
— Eric Cantona
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I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.
— Unknown Author
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We…
— Brian Day
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
— Lionel Trilling
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling…
— Sun Tzu
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,…
— Sun Tzu
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls…
— Sun Tzu
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international…
— J. William Fulbright
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