"A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth."

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Source : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.379, Del Rey

Matthew Woodring Stover

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“Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur, and people become bound in their current problems. That which afflicted the grandfathers of their grandfathers is a distant, dim thing, and not as important as present concerns, no matter how trivial.”

Source : Kristen Britain (2011). “The High King's Tomb”, p.275, Hachette UK
“Acting has been very useful to me.”
“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”
“Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.”

Source : "The Undoing of Thought". Book by Alain Finkielkraut, 1988.
“Day by day, be content with whatever you have and satisfied with whatever happens. Everything else will then fall naturally into place.”
“When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.”
“I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.”
“If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration.”

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