"Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle."

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Source : "Fictional character: Khan Noonien Singh". "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", 1982.

Frances Hardinge

#Revenge Quotes #Distance Quotes #Dishes Quotes

“We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.”
“Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.”
“I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.”
“I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.”
“If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.”
“To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.”
“Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.”

Source : Kirk J. Schneider (1990). “The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature”, Prometheus Books
“We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story. And somehow, miraculously, a story that comes from deep in my heart calls from a reader that which is deepest in his or her heart, and together from our secret hidden selves we create a story that neither of us could have told alone.”

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