"Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me."

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Source : Tad Williams (2010). “Shadowrise: Volume Three of Shadowmarch”, p.524, Penguin

Tad Williams

#Ancestor Quotes

“Never say ‘you don’t know’, say, ‘I’ll find out!’”
“Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.”
“Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes.”

Source : Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”
“We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?”
“Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.”
“As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.”
“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.”
“Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since the Reagan administration.”

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