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Prosaist Inspirational Quotes (18187)

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In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.
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Hope is a slow business.
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Dreams take short cuts.
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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.
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The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.
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If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.
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At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
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Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.
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What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make I can only undo, unmake.
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... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
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Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.
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Infinite are the arguments of mages.
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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
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Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience
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For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.
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I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.
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Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.
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The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.
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As a writer, you are free.
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Even a poet cannot get everything right.
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A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.
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