„Anyone from anywhere can do anything.“
— Тайлер Джозеф American singer-songwriter and record producer 1988
„Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.“
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„I really had no control over my cat. Hell, who actually had control over any cat?“
— P.C. Cast American writer 1960
„My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.“
— Margaret Atwood Canadian writer 1939
Context: Instead of this, I tell
what I hope will pass as truth.
A blunt thing, not lovely.
The truth is seldom welcome,
especially at dinner,
though I am good at what I do.
My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.
„I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.“
— Patrick Rothfuss American fantasy writer 1973
Context: Anyway, I was listening to Beagle answer a question on the panel, he said something along the lines of, "I'd never want to write The Last Unicorn again. It was excruciatingly hard, because I was writing a faerie tale while at the same time writing a spoof of a faerie tale."
I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.
While telling his story, Kvothe makes it clear that he's not the storybook hero legends make him out to be. But at the same time, the reader sees that he's a hero nonetheless. He's just a hero of a different sort.
Interview with Fantasy Book Critic (25 May 2007)
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„Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.“
— Homér, The Iliad
IX. 312–313 (tr. Alexander Pope).
A. H. Chase and W. G. Perry, Jr.'s translation:
: Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
„Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.“
— Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963
Letter to Louis Untermeyer (8 July 1915)
„When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
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„Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
Context: Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird. [p. 224]
„Anyone who loves us Ahlul Bayt must be ready to face a life of austerity.“
— Ali cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad 599 - 661
„If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.“
— Angelina Jolie American actress, film director, and screenwriter 1975