"The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while."

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Source : Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.113, Penguin

Jim Butcher

#Littles Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.”
“The heart thinks of everything you can give, and the soul thinks of everything you are.”
“Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard?”
“I can't even remember when the Seventies was.”
“This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which thou art a part.”
“I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.”
“The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.”
“Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories â€” and come up with nothing but clichÃ©s: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.”

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