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He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
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wonder
wisdom
foolish
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Tad Williams |
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e655fa2
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You are only a prisoner when you surrender.
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hope
prisoner
surrender
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Tad Williams |
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1297c4d
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She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.
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words
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Tad Williams |
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0c92303
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Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.
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future
dystopia
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Tad Williams |
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c73e535
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A piece of writing is a trap," he said cheerily, "and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive--which is knowledge--alive forever."
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Tad Williams |
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1bd89fe
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Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.
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light
sun
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Tad Williams |
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1910cca
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Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.
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funny
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Tad Williams |
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29b62a5
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He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had
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friends
otherland
tad-williams
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Tad Williams |
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628b66c
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Books are a form of magic--" the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, "--because they span time and distance more surely than any spell or charm."
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Tad Williams |
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After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the ete..
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energy
perception
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Tad Williams |
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32ea6bd
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Has everyone gone mad?" "Everyone was mad already, my lady," Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. "It is merely that the times have brought it out in them."
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Tad Williams |
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You're pretty hard-boiled, Tinker Bell. -Call me that name again and you'll be wondering how your bollocks wound up lodged in your windpipe--from below. Just because we don't get to your side of things much anymore doesn't mean we don't know anything. 'If you believe in fairies, clap your hands!' If you believe in fairies, kiss my rosy pink arse is more like it. Now are you going to shut your gob or not?
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Tad Williams |
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Tangaloor, fire-bright Flame-foot, farthest walker Your hunter speaks In need he walks In need, but never in fear.
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prayer
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Tad Williams |
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You show me what someone listens to, I'll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)
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music
nickelback
soul
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Tad Williams |
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8b80c86
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Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered."
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imagination
my-life-story
treasures
labor
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Tad Williams |
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01f08cf
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the road to Heaven is paved with bullshit and busy work.
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Tad Williams |
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Stairs. This is Hell. Hell is stairs, was all Theo could think. I'd sell my soul for a goddamn elevator. But I don't have a soul, do I? I'm some kind of fairy. Okay, settle for an escalator, then.
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Tad Williams |
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edcf8d7
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Just get up. What's your name, kid?" "G-man" "I don't mean your codename down at the Dickhead Club. What does it say on your driver's license?"
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humor
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Tad Williams |
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1a8da23
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Every man is the hero of his own song.
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otherland
tad-williams
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Tad Williams |
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0e695f9
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Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.
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Tad Williams |
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I haven't met that many women, human or angelic, who actually like to drive. In my experience they seem to be much more pragmatic about the whole thing than we are. For most males, driving is an extension of their masculinity; they have little fantasy scenarios going all the time - races, chases, and dramatic combat with other drivers. Females, on the other hand, generally seem to view driving as something you do to get somewhere. I know, c..
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funny
men-and-women
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Tad Williams |
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42f8449
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What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?
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Tad Williams |
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c22ed68
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Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.
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guiding-words
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Tad Williams |
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0ca3e50
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I'm tired of being lost and I'm tired of dying, so I'm going to try something different this time.
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Tad Williams |
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0af2c7b
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Even the king's Erkynguard might have wished to be elsewhere, rather than here on this killing ground where duty brought them and loyalty prisoned them. Only the mercenaries were here by choice. To Simon, the minds of men who would come to this of their own will were suddenly as incomprehensible as the thoughts of spiders or lizards--less so, even, for the small creatures of the earth almost always fled from danger. These were madmen, Simon..
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Tad Williams |
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9f71d9a
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If you wish to carry a hungry weasel in your pocket, it is your choice.
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Tad Williams |
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So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.
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tad-williams
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Tad Williams |
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eefafd7
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It's amazing the stupid things I say sometimes. I mean, you could start an entire branch of scientific research about the stuff I say that gets proved wrong while I'm still busy saying it.
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Tad Williams |
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Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been, to discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals or something. Information Age. Hell it's the Imagination Age. We're living in our own minds. No, she decided as the plane began its steep descent, really we're living in other people's minds.
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Tad Williams |
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0e6985a
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But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden.
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Tad Williams |
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649959b
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Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman's tongue? What good was beauty -- a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless -- if it cloaked such a viperous soul?
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masks
evil
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Tad Williams |
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916a074
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There is no such thing as an accident. That's what science is all about. (...) There are only patterns we don't yet recognize.
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Tad Williams |
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Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don't understand it.
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Tad Williams |
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Theo knew enough about women and their clothes to recognize she was trying to strike an appropriate balance between... what? Between liking him and hating him? Between wanting to look good and not wanting to look too available? Just because he knew a mixed message when he saw one didn't mean he knew exactly which messages were being mixed
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Tad Williams |
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8fb86d2
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Experience came easily enough, learning how not to suffer would have proved much more practical.
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Tad Williams |
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5b53cd5
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When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.
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Tad Williams |
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7cb6252
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God gives us all youth, and the takes it away again. What have you gained to offset that loss? Patience? Perhaps a little wisdom? Then be patient, and perhaps you'll also be wise. (Miriamele)
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Tad Williams |
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498921b
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Good stories will tell you that facing the lie is the worst terror of all. And there is no talisman or magic sword that is half so potent a weapon as truth
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Tad Williams |
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There were more problems with solitude than just being horny and bored. If you didn't have anyone to talk to for days on end, you didn't have anyone to let you know whether you were going nuts or not.
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Tad Williams |
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cc68c3c
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Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.
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Tad Williams |
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9d3d5be
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If your enemy comes to speak bearing a sword, open your door to him and speak, but keep your own sword at hand. If he comes to you empty-handed, greet him the same way. But if he comes to you bearing gifts, stand on your walls and cast stones down on him.
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Tad Williams |
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901aec1
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If we do not reach our hands will always be empty.
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Tad Williams |
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1a450b1
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I've always preferred the city at night. I believe that San Judas, or any city, belongs to the people who sleep there. Or maybe they don't sleep - some don't - but they there. Everybody else is just a tourist. Venice, Italy, for instance, pulls in a millions tourists for their own Carnival season but the actual local population is only a couple of hundred thousand. Lots of empty canals and streets at night, especially when you get away f..
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travel
venice
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Tad Williams |
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cb4799d
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All people know the Greater Hunger...It is the hunger for warmth, for family, for connection to the stars and the earth and other living things..." "For love?" Renie asked. "Yes, I suppose that could be true."
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Tad Williams |