"You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way... Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done."

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Source : "The Paths of the Dead". Book by Steven Brust, 2003.

Steven Brust

#Suffering Quotes #Phrases Quotes #Asking Quotes

“To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.”
“Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress.”
“If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]”
“We want to take a hard look at the ease with which wrongdoers can get their hands on deadly weapons and the frequency with which they use them.”

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“The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!”
“THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.”
“The camera is as subjective as we are.”
“And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.”

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