"Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils……" — R. Scott Bakker
"Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued."
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33 Quotes by R. Scott Bakker
R. Scott Bakker has 33 quotes on this site.
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Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no…
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What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the…
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To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told,…
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To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of…
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Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is…
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Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
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The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
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You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh…
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Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of…
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Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that…
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He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own…
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Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good…
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More Censoring Quotes
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...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to…
— Harry Browne
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I go through fan mail myself, but I think I might get them censored, because I'm always expecting to get…
— Robert Pattinson
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And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not…
— Ron Currie Jr.
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Yet the transgender lobby aggressively attacks any critical voice as transphobic and tries to censor us from speaking. There is…
— Janice Raymond
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What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring…
— Arno Allan Penzias
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We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are…
— Esther Perel
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One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.
— Tim Robbins
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The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
— Judi Dench
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What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable…
— Katherine Moennig
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What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly…
— Evan Davis
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If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand…
— Joni Mitchell
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